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Zoomup Women and BS7671

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In a current thread, the intrepid Zoomup refers to his professional etiquette with female customers. I think I understand the reason why he mentioned it, given the boiling anxiety and rightful anger of women following the appalling murder of Sarah Everard. But what efforts are we making as an industry to provide a safe and attractive career for females in electrical installation work? I was part of a scheme twenty years ago that set about trying to do just that but it failed miserably as it was under resourced and really lacked any enthusiastic drive.

Just look at the plethora of males that dominate our industry. I wonder how many females have found a place on JPEL 64? 

There are lots of reasons why females would not give the electrical installation industry a second glance but I believe a re-invigorated, seriously well-funded body should commence the efforts to change that. A body like the IET perhaps? Whoever it may be, we all have a role to play even if it is just following what Zoomup does!
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    My daughter sometimes complains that I didn't teach her "boy things" when she was young, but she showed no interest at all and, frankly, no aptitude. Pure thoughts, men, pure thoughts! "Boy things" means taking things apart and fixing them.


    No. 1 granddaughter showed no interest at all when I was rewiring their house; no 2 granddaughter showed just a little, but didn't seem to want to know how it works. When I was little, I enjoyed watching tradesmen at work and wanted to be able to do it myself.


    So I think that it is simply the case that most girls simply are not interested. There were no women in any of the resettlement courses that I did, but that reflects the sex ratio in the armed forces.


    There may be some women who start an apprenticeship and find laddish behaviour on site or elsewhere intolerable. If that is the case, the issue needs to be addressed.
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    My daughter sometimes complains that I didn't teach her "boy things" when she was young, but she showed no interest at all and, frankly, no aptitude. Pure thoughts, men, pure thoughts! "Boy things" means taking things apart and fixing them.


    No. 1 granddaughter showed no interest at all when I was rewiring their house; no 2 granddaughter showed just a little, but didn't seem to want to know how it works. When I was little, I enjoyed watching tradesmen at work and wanted to be able to do it myself.


    So I think that it is simply the case that most girls simply are not interested. There were no women in any of the resettlement courses that I did, but that reflects the sex ratio in the armed forces.


    There may be some women who start an apprenticeship and find laddish behaviour on site or elsewhere intolerable. If that is the case, the issue needs to be addressed.
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