Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by jvanderbot on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:32PM (#42066987)

It's a little different when people are regularly talking about your genitals or sexual preferences or histories or your family reputation. And in public. And in team meetings.

That kind of thing rarely comes up in corporate america. In corp/academia people just like to imply you're lazy or unintelligent, subtly and frequently. But yeah, white collar jobs are annoying as well. That's why we all get paid to do them.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:19PM (#42069577)

I think everyone else is assuming a different level and amount of personal insults when we discuss “shop talk”.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:39PM (#42070665)

Because I've heard different levels and amounts of insults. It can just be some harmless dad jokes and softball stuff you'd hear in white collar work. It can just be outright sexual harassment. It depends so much on your environment that it's hard to pin down a universal "standard" .

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