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Speaking about diversity. We need some diversity among men who collect garbage and plumbers. Why? Because diversity is good. /s

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I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but yeah, we should have diversity in all fields. And it’s slowly happening. My garbage person is female, as was the electrician that replaced my electrical panel.

The garbage collection is mostly automated using an arm from the truck, but she can still lift a full compost bin to dump in the truck that’s too heavy for me to lift.

>I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic

Meant to be sarcastic, made my edit.

You say that like it's not the goal. Yes, women are more vocal about male dominated careers that they're actively trying to enter but you're missing the forest. For adult women the damage of "has never even thought about a career as a plumber because that's a boy job" has already been done. You could probably name 20 careers that are like this for both men and women off the top of your head. That doesn't mean it's not the goal to change that.

Also, not the point, but plumbing is very lucrative.

“Women” is 50% of the population, not some hive mind.

People who are pushing for better career paths for women are largely not pushing women (and others) towards careers in trades. I think that’s to the detriment of society in general.

Ah yes, you can't possibly talk about the experiences of women because we're 50% of the population but "people" who are 100% of the population, that group is homogeneous.

It can't be that I'm giving an explanation as to why you see women pushing for more representation in some fields but not others, it must be that I'm describing the personal lived experience of every single woman on the planet.

Also we absolutely are a hive mind, Beyonce is the current queen who took over after Madonna.

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