Okay, just wow.

So, the number of women working in construction is a paltry 10% of the total construction workforce, which would seem to support your idea that we are somehow not suited to it.

Except that the number of women in construction grew by 81.3% from 1985 to 2007. This, of course, correlates directly to increased rights for women. Women don’t avoid construction because we aren’t strong enough, we avoid it because people like you THINK we aren’t strong enough.

Between 2017 and 2018 the number of women in plumbing went up by 70%. This includes things like pipelaying and steamfitting.

It is true that the average woman is smaller than the average man. This is sometimes a disadvantage in the trades and sometimes an advantage (the ability to fit into smaller crawlspaces).

In mining, women were actively discouraged from working during the first half of the 20th century.

The reason there are so few women in construction is not biology, it is sexism. You are perpetuating the very idea that keeps us out.

Let’s move on to fighting.

Samurai women were tasked to defend their home when the men fought. They were competent warriors. There’s a growing indication that the same may have been true in northern Europe, with shieldmaidens protecting the home when the men were raiding or trading…and it’s also clear that a minority, but a noticeable one, of women DID go to war.

And I dare you to tell any surviving Night Witches that women can’t fight.