Exactly. A lot of these jobs are more dangerous than they have to be because the men doing them are more concerned about showing off to other men while performing masculinity than whether or not they get injured.

Also, a lot of these jobs exclude women via childcare. If you have kids, you simply can’t work the shifts because you can only work jobs that are in line with school and day care hours. The women. You see working these kinds of trades are doing so as solopreneurs or small business / contract work.

Turns out a lot of women really enjoy trade work. They do it at home because they can’t get employed for it. They’re levelling up their skills on their own.