Plus, those jobs don't yield any to the realities of caring for children whether you're talking about shifts or assisting in some manner for child care.

He mentioned construction jobs. It's pretty telling that there are tons of women doing construction type work out there. They're skilled and industrious. But, for the most part they're doing so as solopreneurs rather than getting a job for another company. Why? They're mothers.

You see women on a construction job, it's likely she's either a lesbian, Transwomen, or a woman who is childless. She's also usually the only woman on the site. She's a diversity token the men resent. She "stole" that job from a decent man who has a family to provide for. So she's getting harassed and resented a lot. If that's the atmosphere women have to work in, they're going to be less likely to seek employment there. It's not 1950 anymore.

If you see multiple women or an all woman crew (I'm aware of a couple of all woman roofing crews) it's because the business is owned by a woman. Now you run into issues of inequality on job bids, being gouged on insurance because there are no men to "protect" them, that kind of thing.

Long story short, it's as you said. Men are protecting employment in certain lucrative industries for themselves.

I would actually not be surprised that more women knew how to change a tire or operate a nail gun now than men.

At 51, I've been on a few dates where there was car trouble. It was me that changed the tire, patched a hose, repaired the wipers, and jump started the car. The guy didn't know how. One was shocked to find out you could buy jumper cables "over the counter".

So this guy's perception of the world has not been my reality, nor the reality of most women I know, even the ones who work in offices.