If Feminism is all about "equality", then why do we never hear them complain about female under-representation in occupations that are dangerous?

[PA19062024]

In other words, a job where you don't actually have to do any work.

Or dirty. You know, the occupations that are overwhelmingly dominated by males, like mining, front-line soldiers, construction workers, electricians, garbage collectors - that sort of thing. They always complain there are far too few female CEO's, or tech workers, or bureaucrats, or other occupations that involve no risk whatsoever apart from perhaps getting a broken fingernail from shuffling papers too fast. Why don't they actually want to work?

[DishLady]

No, it's not initially about misandrism, @thespacegnome. Feminism truly was initially just geared towards equality in a world where men were all off at war and women had to step into their factory and construction jobs to keep their lives and homes thriving. They weren't paid the same "skilled laborer" wages as their husbands had been, which made it harder to maintain a household while their guys were away...

Financial and intellectual equality were the two goals, but not the loss or cancellation of femininity, chivalry and all the things that make male-female relations so f-ing amazing. Future generations (and Hollywood) twisted and warped the intention and definition of the term till it veered so far off track that all anyone hears about now is "mansplaining" "manspread" and all sorts of other nonsense.

I can't even apologize for it because I don't partake in it... I can't see why anyone would find it appealing to hate half of the human race blindly. It makes no sense at all.

[Agape93]

Same reason men don't want those jobs either. They either don't know its a thing or they don't wanna do it. I don't see many men lining up to be deep sea welders, or foundry slag scrapers, or sewer maintenance etc.

[PA19062024]

True, but all of those occupations you list are done exclusively by men, so you're kind of confirming my point here.

[Agape93]

Not really

www.themoxyvoice.com/.../waitress-pivots-to-underwater-welding

https://youtu.be/frQUOfWwkfU?si=mmlNbaiq7Ikl2mnf

As examples

[PA19062024]

Okay. Well, hopefully many more women will follow her lead :)

[Agape93]

Agreed. They pay well.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Because feminism isn't about equality, its about hating on men.

[In_Trance]

Because it's not about that.

[Anonymous]

Is this really an issue of gender though? I'm a man and while many people have told me to go into medicine, law, or engineering no one ever told me to work on an oil rig or become a carpenter.

[Anonymous]

Because feminism CLEARLY has nothing to do with equality.

[purplepoppy]

Nobodies forcing guys to take those jobs.