I've worked in the office of three different kinds of "blue collar" companies. A large homebuilder, an emergency response team, and now for an industrial galvanizer. I had access to employee records for all of the non-office staff.
There were maybe a handful of women in the emergency response teams. Less for construction. None for the galvanizer. They mostly work in the office.
Blue collar isn't effected by women's need to work. Trust me. The economy has changed. Also, many of those guys had women who stayed home. They had much less than people with two working parents, but they managed it. It's not just the gadgets. What a guy might spend on a bowling night back in the 50's now probably gets pissed away in some other form.
There were maybe a handful of women in the emergency response teams. Less for construction. None for the galvanizer. They mostly work in the office.
Blue collar isn't effected by women's need to work. Trust me. The economy has changed. Also, many of those guys had women who stayed home. They had much less than people with two working parents, but they managed it. It's not just the gadgets. What a guy might spend on a bowling night back in the 50's now probably gets pissed away in some other form.
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