Wethead

Just Curious.

I have only plumbed with a women once in a shop

Anyone else?

And no bring your wife to work , does not count

And while we are on the subject,

Do you think there should be more women in the workplace?

muck

no women here, i think it would be fine as long as they can handle the work

Wethead

Yea, There are plenty of tuff women out there, I just think they would feel weird as most shops are mostly men, but if more women were on job sites that would be better

uaplumber

Women would be great for service work. Sally home owner would be really comfortable I think.

Wethead

Yea, someone should try that approach, or has someone already?

rocksteady

i like to think all "equality for all" and all that and in a perfect world where everyone had the same qualifications it would be great. i've only worked with one woman plumber and i tell myself that i can't make any gender judgments based on her. she was a terrible plumber and worker in general. she was lazy, had no energy or strength, easily distracted and just a bad plumber. i KNOW all woman plumbers are not like her but that is my only experience.

that said, i've known plenty of girls and women that weren't plumbers but i know damned well if they wanted to be one they could be as good or better than i could be. and most of them were easy on the eyes too. i think the stigma of what a plumber is makes most women not want to be one. not to mention the general blue collar stigma. go to college and get a real job so you can support yourself and your family. trades don't have the respect they once had and everyone can feel it.

on another note. if you took the total woman plumber population and then did a proficiency test i'd bet the % of qualified women would be higher than the % of qualified men "plumbers" out there.









paul

22rifle

My lovely wife can run PEX heat lines better than many men. Pure feminine woman, no "tough attitude" from her. But she is tougher than most women I know. Most men for that matter. But her toughness is the real deal. Inside, where it counts. She would make a good tech with some more training. But those days are over. Thank God! It was hard on her body.

Ron

There is actually a woman that is a licensed plumber works for a company here in town, she has been there for years, we also have a woman plumbing inspector, you don't get to be an inspector without first being a plumber. Then there was a time in a shop I worked at we had a woman apprentice come in to work, she resigned 4 months later.

So they are here just rare when you see them..

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Killertoiletspider

When I was running new high rise work years ago I rarely had a crew that did not have at least one woman plumber, usually more than one. I usually had them work on the second rough crew because they were more detail oriented.

ROCKSTARPLUMBER

There is a plumbing company here that is owned by a woman, also has female employees. Now at my last job employed they hired this girl, who also liked girls, but she never did anything, wasn't very good either at anything. I think it is risky because of the legalities that could arise if she just didnt work out and you had to fire one.

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