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Vance H
March 5, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Truth, Love and Peace for All
Mikaeus Bznd
March 5, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Even female healthcare workers, which are most of them, fleed and now men who were forbidden to flee can’t even have proper treatment. Women and children are sure suffering but men from 18-60 were not even given a choice, they are the real victims no one is seeing. Even unarmed men are not seen as civilians by the midia anymore. A woman past 40 can’t have children and a woman who is not taking care of a child can shoot a gun as much as any men. What was equality for? If they have stayed resistence would be double. At least give everyone the same right to leave or the same duty to defend because in a situation like this defeat means there will be no country to repopulate. The life of a woman is not worth more than the life of a man.
Riclmnopp
March 5, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Measure twice cut once.
Cats Paw
March 5, 2022 at 8:01 pm
I knew her surname would be hyphenated
A Parks
March 5, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Maybe with more women working in construction and carpentry the men could develop more spatial awareness and get hurt less from being around them. I would never claim that men aren’t good enough for this work, just that women naturally have more spatial awareness and get hurt less doing the same thing. I think boys and men may be able to learn it, even if it’s not occurring naturally in them.
Fiirow1
March 5, 2022 at 8:15 pm
The issue with women the construction industry, is a simple issue of economics.
Let’s use carpentry as an example… Often turns into long hours, with a relatively high physical strain, which women objectively handle less well.
I generally wouldn’t hire women over men, I’d only hire a woman over a man in this situation, if she has a record of outperforming or keeping pace with the male coworkers.
It’s simple… In physically demanding jobs, women are often less suitable… It’s not a matter of sexism or discrimination, it’s just a fact of life.
I have nothing against women in the construction industry, it just doesn’t make sense economically. (for the most part)
Can’t we just learn to live with our differences, rather than lowering the collective bar of achievement for the good of nobody.
Levite David
March 5, 2022 at 8:30 pm
🤣🤣 wear a 40lb belt , lift 12 ft 16 gauge studs , operate on dangerous elevation and work 10 hours 5 days a week 🤣🤣 she built this comfortably, a work environment is faster and competitive 🤷🏿♂️ women can do it, but realistically they don’t want to go through a career of journeyman work🤷🏿♂️ … she worked in management , not as a journeyman 🤷🏿♂️ you can do it girl, but don’t front on the reality of the field
PC Henderson
March 5, 2022 at 8:34 pm
We need more women architects to design buildings with more bathrooms and better human design choices.
credenza1
March 6, 2022 at 12:37 am
Who is going to clean the bathrooms?
Levite David
March 5, 2022 at 8:42 pm
She didn’t thank men at all, she basically said “women can do that” … if the world is built by construction, from beginning 99% was men … thank men for building the building you’re talking in. Instead of acting like danger and sacrifice built the world. MEN did that, the same way WOMEN gave birth to us all. WE NEED EACH OTHER but can’t be each other.
cinnamon8884
March 5, 2022 at 9:23 pm
lol bs
VOLTRON
March 5, 2022 at 9:37 pm
She also needs to thank men for designing all the tools she’s using.🤣
Matt Channel
March 5, 2022 at 8:53 pm
These TED talks became real life satire: a woman giving a 3 minute talk on middle school level, stretching it to 10 minutes by demonstrating she can handle tools without hurting herself. You can’t make this up.
cinnamon8884
March 5, 2022 at 9:21 pm
triggered
Buildings1772
March 5, 2022 at 10:20 pm
lol, the use of the tools is well under a half of the talk. this comment speaks more to your insecurity than any problem with the talk its self.
freggo
March 5, 2022 at 9:04 pm
So she built a toolbox with a 1×2 as a handle?
With weight in the box this is rather uncomfortable to carry.
At least round off the edges or better use a 1″ dowel for the handle.
Todd Terrace
March 5, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Get back in the kitchen!
themoonhunter
March 5, 2022 at 9:21 pm
So…
I do not give a damn who makes it, it can be a Gorilla for all I care, I just want, and it would be nice if it were build decently and smart.
That is it.
cinnamon8884
March 5, 2022 at 9:24 pm
lol so many triggered snowflakes in the comments.
Absolute Truth
March 5, 2022 at 9:30 pm
There are women on construction sites. My mother n law was a plasterer for a long time. There’s no barrier between women and construction work. Women just don’t typically choose that type of work. Just like how most teachers are women. Women are typically more interested in people and men are interested in things. I do find it interesting that women claim they want to be exactly the same as men but then we see them doing things such as “Only fans”.
VOLTRON
March 5, 2022 at 9:38 pm
🤣🤣👍
Mattninja
March 5, 2022 at 10:00 pm
I thought when she mentioned woman she was including All but when she said woman of color so that’s only selected group?? I think ALL should be example not just woman of color
First Name Last Name
March 5, 2022 at 10:01 pm
Satire.
Learn Japanese Online
March 5, 2022 at 10:28 pm
💙
Furrrburger
March 5, 2022 at 10:32 pm
This talk paints a very positive picture of what it is to be in the trades. Yes, building things with your hands feels amazing. To look back and say I built that deck or house or bridge, does make you feel like you have made a difference in the world. Doing it everyday, for years, in order to build experience is an entirely different story. The apparently difficult truth to accept is that the physical strength differences between men and woman are very relevant to why certain jobs will always be filled by men. Men are also much less risk averse, think motorcycles, guns, jumping off stuff. There are words and ideas, and then there is reality and evidence. Factor in the need to complete a job on time and on budget, and you have another forcing function selecting for the strongest, fastest, highest skilled workers in the market. Lastly, there is a ton of health risks on a big construction site. Heavy equipment, tools, and materials, are all trying to kill you everyday. In 2019, there were over 5,300 deaths on construction sites in the US alone, the highest of any industry! So with all that being said, construction is still an amazing and rewarding profession, if only because you survived another day on site and get to go home and have a well deserved beer.
Jeffrey Baldwin
March 5, 2022 at 10:55 pm
Im a bricklayer. There is a reason that 99.98% of bricklayers are men. And the 1/5000 who is a woman is either hearty and stubborn enough to survive the trade or shoehorned as fast as possible into office work when they start holding back the crew. “Heavy machinery” certainly helps, but it cant replace actual, honest to god, gruntwork necessary. Blistering heat, freezing cold, trunching through foot deep mud, hauling 80lbs cement bags or 120lbs stones, shoveling gravel or sand, 40ft up in the air off scaffolding or 10ft underground down a trench. Its honest work, but hard. I understood immediately when she said “design”. Not looking down on engineers or architects and the work they do, but she doent look like she has EVER really worked the grind on a worksite. Everyone, including men, have to prove their ability to remain on the job in construction positions.
bound2thefloor
March 5, 2022 at 11:35 pm
Uhhhh, it’s a Miter Saw not a Chop Saw. Chop Saws don’t miter & are mainly used for cutting metals / tiles.
Violet_SKRS
March 6, 2022 at 12:12 am
The misogyny in this comment section. Y’all really can’t help yourselves
credenza1
March 6, 2022 at 12:27 am
Interesting idea, but fundamentally flawed. Women generally do no have the inclination or aptitude for construction. It is not a flaw, or a diminution, it is just biology. From an economic and safety perspective, it would be very foolhardy to artificially increase the proportion of women in construction. It is a very demanding and dangerous profession and any compromise in the selection process could have disastrous outcomes.
Roo The conqueror
March 6, 2022 at 12:43 am
china made every bit of that
Kevin VanGelder
March 6, 2022 at 1:24 am
Dislikes disabled. Classic.
jake hart
March 6, 2022 at 8:06 am
Try being a mason working in chicgao from December to end of feb.
It’s okay that men and women are different. It’s okay!
gsftb
March 6, 2022 at 11:10 am
Some people think that they have force it
jake hart
March 6, 2022 at 8:07 am
“The trades desperately need women”
Probably not, but even if they did, women don’t desperately need the trades
Ghevi Sartor
March 6, 2022 at 10:07 pm
so how are they making a living and why men cant do the same? are women getting hired mored on offices jobs because of discrimination against men or are men not pursuing those offices jobs?
Noukz
March 6, 2022 at 9:47 am
*bowing down*
B Z
March 6, 2022 at 11:42 am
3:29
“I want a world built by women”
Dictators applaud you 👏
Ben Goacher
March 6, 2022 at 11:56 am
Women want to be gifted positions in marketing companies, finance, insurance, IT and computing. You don’t find many women protesting gender inequality in construction (besides the office jobs), agriculture, mining, oil and gas extraction, fishing and the military.
It is ok for women to want to pursue office based careers, it is not ok for women to demand preferential treatment in those careers when they overlook the whole manual labour side of employment. Women in my age group (18-30) are far more likely to get a degree and already earn more than men. We are steaming towards a two tier society, where women take the office jobs, usually with their higher wages, favourable hours, and less stress and strain on the body. While men are relegated to manual labour jobs.
That is totally unacceptable. We need to end this idea that women are somehow overlooked in the office. That simply isn’t true and hasn’t been true for many years. Feminists point to the CEOs of major companies and claim sexism still exists. What they fail to acknowledge is that the men in those positions are 50-60 years old, and have worked for the last 40 years to get there. when you consider what the working environment for women was back then, yes, sexism and gender norms was the reason women didn’t become CEOs. But trying to fast track women into positions of authority in companies will just exclude competent men from those positions.
We can’t change the past, and the past will continue to haunt us for another generation yet. But we shouldn’t let the past determine our future. We are better than that. We need to promote equality of opportunity not equality of outcome. That means 1. Allowing women to attend school and study whatever they like on an equal footing to men. I believe we have done that. 2. Allow women to work in any industry without prejudice or exclusion. I believe in most industries besides the manual labour industries that women aren’t interested in joining, and men aren’t interested in sharing that has been achieved. 3. Teach women that they can be career driven and that they don’t need to have children and be a housekeeper. I believe that has happened already. That is all we need to do. By pushing women into places they don’t want to be, and gifting women positions they aren’t qualified for. We don’t do anyone any favours.
barry bergen
March 6, 2022 at 12:07 pm
There’s that equitable word again. Hire/promote based on an individual’s gender or color; not on their ability and experience. It’s worked so well in the military and firefighting communities. Except for the guys that have to pick up the slack.
Rocco Candida
March 6, 2022 at 12:08 pm
Well here’s the thing women are no longer minority if you all get on the same page you can change the world. And I wish you would! Seriously cuz this world is messed up right now. It just ain’t worth living in. We’re going in a downhill spiral like when you flush the toilet. That’s the way the world is going down the drain down the tubes. The women’s movement has accomplished quite a bit and it’s no time to stop now. You have the numbers you can change the world that’s a factual statistic. Take that and run with it! Please
FatBoy Runs
March 6, 2022 at 1:12 pm
I have a few issues with this talk. The main one is the premise that for a woman to prove her worth, she needs to do the work that traditionally males do. No they don’t! Every single human being on this earth came through the legs of a woman, that is a fact and is enough of a reason to make women very precious!
Ladies, if you WANT to work in the construction buisiness, all the power to you! But men and women are different in many ways and that is OK!
matthew epler
March 6, 2022 at 1:44 pm
Have you ever felt the pride of seeing someone use something you built? And gotten paid for it? That is what she is encouraging by teaching young women these skills. That is a universal feeling.
To anyone making the “what about heavy lifting” argument…I kn9w plenty of men who can’t lift anything heavy and plenty of women who can.
When a culture and industry demand a man “do it himself,” it’s no wonder their bodies are broken after years of work. If you lift something together, design the good being lifted in a different way, and/or create a culture of safety over pride…then you have something better. That is feminism. And I’m all for it.
Great talk. I hear you.
Emmanuel Obadimu
March 6, 2022 at 3:09 pm
This is an amazing comment. Men do not need to get riled up about the desire of women to be in the construction industry.
The few women that were in my class, and that work with me on site, are the cream of the crop.
Same yardstick applies to everyone. You’d be dropped if you under-perform, regardless of your gender.
Simon bastin
March 6, 2022 at 2:05 pm
If this talk gets even one woman away from massive debt for a useless university degree then I am ok with this.
Alex T.
March 6, 2022 at 2:11 pm
Women in the mechanic industry might be better
Russell Hall
March 6, 2022 at 3:01 pm
Oh it’s definitely a “pipe” dream 😂
Emilio Deluca
March 6, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Sorry honey, women do not care about building anything. They are the consumers. We are the makers. Leave it alone boop, you lose this fight. Biology wins!
Robert Sterler
March 6, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Women, exclusively, do the most difficult construction job of all human beings – they make babies. This fact is more difficult physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually than any other construction project. And they do it intelligently and intuitively. Women are eminently qualified to build anything else!
Bobby Trill
March 6, 2022 at 11:39 pm
It’s literally a biological process they’re biologically designed to do lol…
guiness1100
March 6, 2022 at 6:12 pm
Not trying to be funny here, but there is no barrier to entry for women in the construction field (apart from their desire or lack thereof to enter). I have been encouraging young people of all races and genders to eschew college degree programs (that do not actually result in career paths) for entry into the trade career fields which always need more employees and pays really well. I applaud the fact that this woman is succeeding in the construction field, but to imply that women are prevented from entering this career path is a little dubious. It would be like saying that men should enter the nursing career field and if only women didn’t hamper their entry, everything would be better. Much like women in construction, there is nothing preventing men from entering the nursing fields (apart from their desire or lack thereof).
Aaron Lingenfelter
March 7, 2022 at 1:26 am
Um…actually she’s a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Apparently succeeding in the construction field wasn’t as easy as she makes it out to be. She’s also been on the cover of Make: magazine if I remember correctly.
neotoy
March 6, 2022 at 6:28 pm
BTW, building something live while giving an eloquent speech is not an easy thing to do. A very impressive performance, and a wonderful message.
Maite Aguirre
March 6, 2022 at 6:45 pm
I did all that in home ed in the 90s GEN Z smh
Chris L
March 6, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Do you guys think you’ll ever be as good as you were before you guys became indoctrinated by a weird political agenda? Ted used to get millions of views and it’s been a long time since those days have past and i would like ted talks to return to its former glory but at the rate you guys are going i don’t really see it ever happening
Victor Ricardo
March 6, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Lmao!!!!
Franko Paddo
March 6, 2022 at 9:03 pm
All my manual labouring and trades relatives (father, uncles) did all they could to make sure their kids didn’t follow in the same footsteps. The jobs were dangerous … everyone of the relatives has been injured at some time, some seriously, some have been killed at work. Some of their kids went into white collar jobs, some followed their fathers footsteps into the manual trades. The ones that followed are doing everything they can so their kids don’t follow in those footsteps. I get it. Someone has to do those jobs (and they should be paid more than professionals) but the year in, year out physical demands of the work and working in the elements take their toll. This you can actually see in their faces, their hands, their backs. If you are lucky you may become a foreman, or a builder. There are very few CEO jobs at the end. And this is perhaps why, in part, women (largely, unless they have to) don’t want to do these jobs. No one (male or female) wants to do a job which is harder, with less pay that is more dangerous which will affect your appearance and wear you down over time. Not if there is an easier, more lucrative, alternative. To this end this video is disingenuous. This female is not a manual labourer, she is a lecturer at the University of Berkeley who does some woodwork on the side.
love life
March 6, 2022 at 11:28 pm
100% True Perspective💃🏻
Ghevi Sartor
March 6, 2022 at 10:18 pm
Younger men wont be doing those job either, they barely pick jobs in restaurants and bars anymore because of the greater number of days you have to work.
Eventually most people in trade will be immigrants, for example in Italy it’s mostly people from the eastern europe. Same for working in the fields, getting hired from the italian boomers who have made a fortune in those markets.
I’ve worked for 5 years after high school in my dad activity, we made and repaired windows and other wooden stuff that i dont know the word for in english. While it was a good experience, i must admit the phisical demand paired with the fact that i’m allergic to dust and my passion for computer science, made me switch to a programming job and it is much more comfortable even if the mental work is kind of equally exausting. But there is no way i would ever ended up working in the common construction and heavy factory jobs.
My less fortunate male friends prefer to work at amazon and part time jobs in shops for corporations then learn a trade. And women go to university doing whatever in the meanwhile. We will see how it will be in some years.
John Strawb
March 6, 2022 at 10:39 pm
When I see her push for women garbage collectors, women sewage workers, and women waste treatment plant workers, I’ll believe a single thing a woman like this has to say.
Albert BlackPearl
March 7, 2022 at 1:02 am
The tool box is the very first day at school. (Carpentry)
karenjoy511
March 7, 2022 at 1:20 am
I have built, by myself and as a single mom, patio covers, sheds, chicken coops, benches, raised garden beds, shelves, and many more things that very few men I know could build themselves. My daughter grew up watching me build, and knows that it is just as much something a woman can do as a man (and she now does not hesitate to take on her own small building projects). Sometimes all it takes to empower someone is to show them it can be done. I’m so proud of you and the work you’re doing. Thank you!
Daxium
March 7, 2022 at 2:55 am
Love the fact that she predrilled all those holes and planned the cuts for the tool box. She definitely knows her tools and materials. Very well done.
He Sanaz
March 7, 2022 at 6:10 am
Wonderful, inspiring and encouraging 👏
Arturo Gómez Tagle
March 7, 2022 at 8:21 am
The thumbnail ruined the payoff.
Arturo Gómez Tagle
March 7, 2022 at 8:31 am
300k infilled jobs probably because we arrest over a million people a year on drug charges, marking up their records, taking away driver’s licenses, and disqualifying them from industry certifications and licensure. “Specifically young women of color” since 2008 she’s taught 1000 of such women…wow. 15,000,000 colored men have been incarcerated. Priority is what I’m talking about.
slinky. blackcat
March 7, 2022 at 9:52 am
If you want to know why more women don’t go into construction, just read the comments here. “Women can’t do it”, “women don’t want to do it”, “women don’t do it as well as men”, “women just want cushy office jobs that won’t wreck their nails”. They’re not even giving women a chance.
They, and the people in the construction industry, are not allowing for a smaller body frame or different amounts of muscles- they’re saying that women need to fit into a man’s world, instead of compensating for our differences. Maybe it’d be a good thing if cement bags started weighing forty kilos instead of eighty, or work goes a bit slower- maybe men won’t be so broken at the end of their career?
We need to let girls know from an early age that it’s alright for them to like “manly jobs” instead of automatically relegating them to “safer”, more “feminine” jobs. Not every woman wants to be a nurse or teacher or work in an office. And I’m sure more men would enjoy caring and teaching jobs if they were given a chance to explore their nurturing side (though I doubt anyone in the comment section will allow that either 🙄).
Maybe if women and girls were encouraged to use their muscles instead of being ridiculed or helped every time they try, they might actually gain the muscles needed to do stuff? (Before someone derails this by saying “they’ll never help a woman again!”, just ask if they need help before taking over, unless they’re in so much of a struggle that they can’t form words- in that case, I’m sure you’d also help a man in that scenario without asking, so don’t be obtuse.)
I could go on, but who is even reading this far?
Anyway, Happy International Women’s Day (International Men’s Day is in November).
S Stagray
March 7, 2022 at 2:44 pm
Sounded a lot like gender-based hiring practices which is illegal in the United States. Also, confusing Gender Pay Gap with Pay Equity. Why a Nonprofit and not a standard business model?