Ammonite

“having to climb to the top of a chimney stack”.

So.

I have done similar work many times, like most other men employed in construction or factory work.

“She just recently graduated with a teaching degree and teaches maths and science to year nines and eights.”

Exactly.

She would have probably received more money by staying with electrical work, and eventually getting an electrical engineering degree. There is a shortage of electrical engineers in this country and elsewhere.

If women want more money, they have to go where the money is, like men have been doing for centuries

So Vanna if your generalisation is that women avoid dirty work, explain to me those that work in shearing sheds, on farms, in mines, in factories and in abbatoirs. Would love to see your explanation for this.

Country Gal
“those that work in shearing sheds, on farms, in mines, in factories and in abbatoirs”

Some women do work in those places, a very few women.

But it’s not just the dirty, hot or physically demanding work that so many women are not interested in.

This article is interesting

“Australians expected to splurge $5.8 billion on games over the next four years” with "Statistics show 40 per cent of gamers are women,"

http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35990

The games industry seems potentially lucrative, but only 5% to 10% of the students in computer games development classes are women.

So now there has to be a “Women in Games” event to get “women to work in the gaming industry and raise awareness for women interested in it."

Why don’t they just buy a book on games development, download games development software, develop a game, and then sell it, (like countless males have done)?

No.

First of all they have to get government money (i.e tax payer funding), and then hold group sessions to raise awareness of their oppression, oppression, and then they have to develop special women’s networks for women in computer gaming, and somewhere along the line they might actually produce a computer game.

Thats why women so often get left behind.

I am not sure what to make of you vanna. Are you jealous that men cant get themselves organised to promote such things themselves? So the women in gaming want to draw some attention to what they are doing and see if they can encourage others. So what?

Jeez, you obviously havent been in a shearing shed in a while, or on a farm at harvest, or on a mine site. Men are still in the majority, but there are an awful lot of women around doing that work (and making bloody good money too). On a trip to a mine site that my sister used to work at, I was introduced to a number of people in different areas. No one had anything but praise for my sister (who rose to leading hand thanks to being a hard worker and being good at her job). When she first got the job I asked how she found it. Her answer "its awesome, so much fun, the machinery is cool, everyone just gives everyone else a hard time, its just like working in the shed with the shearers". The women work on all aspects of the job (although they are kept off the loader until they are past child-bearing age for fear of employers being sued if something stuffs up) - they work out in the 45 degree heat alongside the blokes, and they are expected to be as competent in operating their machines and understanding how to pick the things that are going wrong in advance of it becoming a major problem. No allowances made because they are women.

Country Gal
Why don't women develop their own mine?

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Forrest

Who is Gina Rinehart? A man in disguise I suppose?