Reddit mentions of Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories (Women in the Political Economy)

>There is essentially no push to get women into lower-paying, more dangerous jobs.

You know, according to Aristotle the only way to prove a universal negative statement ( A is not B ) is to look at every example of A and establish that it is not B. You can't just look at one A. You have to look at all of them. So proving a universal statement is actually really really hard. To prove it false, however, is easy. I just have to show a single A that is B and I've done it. Since you hedged a little with the word "essentially' I'll show you more than one.

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Women Building Futures is a general feminist outreach program for encouraging girls to look into construction trades as an option.

Habitat for Humanity - Women Build program started in 1991.

Sisters in the Brotherhood Outreach for women who want to be carpenters.

The head of the Electrician's Union talks about how he was forced to accept female apprentices by feminists in the 1970's but is now voluntarily cooperating with feminist groups to recruit more because women make great electricians.

The UK sees a huge uptick in women going to trade schools.

Texas Women in Trades explores social media to reach out to young women who may not be aware that there are opportunities for women in the tradeskills and also wants you to know that you Don't Mess With Texas.

Oregon Tradeswomen have a much better website though because Oregon is cooler than Texas and they actually get speaking spots in schools to Build Girls instead of trying to friend people on Facebook which I like better cause I'm old fashioned.

The Midwest School for Women Workers has been held annually in Chicago since 1976.

The Women Building The Nation conference has been held annually since 2010 focusing on ways to shatter the glass basement.

Washington Women In Trades does it Old School with Rosie the Riveter cameos at their 36th annual carrear fair.

Tradeswomen, Inc is actually a nonprofit in California founded in 1979 for outreach, recruitment, retention and leadership development for women in blue- collar skilled craft jobs.

Missouri Women In Trades is a late bloomer founded in 2006 but they have a clever gimmic of partnering with the Girl Scouts for Ms. Fix-It workshops and summer camps to introduce girls to construction trades.

Alaska Works! is partnering with the Women In Trades movement to recruit female apprentices.

Sisters In The Building Trades doesn't focus on recruitment but does provide a networking hub for women to advance their carrears and deal with obstacles/problems in the workplace from men who don't want them there as well as to facilitate mentoring relationships for women in trades.

Utah Women In trades is a baby just founded in 2010 - but then again this is Utah we are talking about. They are slow, we just have to bear with them.

National Women's Law Center cares enough about breaking the glass basement to do a big study on the progress made. June 11, 2014

ANEW (Apprenticeships and Non-traditional Employment For Women) was founded in 1980 to provide women of all ages, races, and backgrounds with quality training, support services and employment preparation, leading to viable and satisfying non-traditional career pathways which lead to family wage jobs.

Amazon is selling the book Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories which is a collection of stories from women in construction work about their experiences as the only women on a job site. People who bought it also bought We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction

Equal Rights Advocates are white collar feminist lawyers, but they stand in solidarity to promote Women in Trades on their website because they understand the concept of the glass basement and want to shatter it. They run a new article every Tuesday for Tradeswoman Tuesday interviewing a different woman who works in construction.

Heart Wrenchers Auto Club was founded in 2010 to each women car repair and also does outreach with the Girl Scouts to yet young girls know they can grow up to be mechanics.

Irma Elder founded the Elder Automative Group and her son continues her legacy seeking to train and hire female mechanics in their 9 dealerships.

Real Women In trucking want to create a network of support for women entering trucking.

The Truck Drivers Institute is very cooperative and partnering with Real Women In Trucking to reach out to women drivers.

The above two links partnership is working because There were 200,000 female truckers in the US in 2013, a number up 50% from 2005! WOOT! That number then almost doubled in 2014. Female truck drivers are 3x less likely to get in an accident and 5x more likely to follow all the safety regulations! Which is why truck driving companies are starting to actively recruit us.

Berkley College was so successful in recruiting women to its forestry program that the last two teams they've sent to logging competitions have been 10 women and one man. This sudden inversion of the gender ratio has been called Women In The Woods and has its own facebook and twitter page.

Axe Women or lumberjills, are showing up in logging competitions as well.

And not just ameture logging competitions. There are enough professional female lumberjacks now to hold a professional competitions. You can tell they are real lumberjacks cause they aren't all pretty like the Axewomen and have bigger biceps as well as tans/burns.

It took a lot of pressure, but the US Forestry Service will admit 20 women into its wildland firefighting boot camp for the first time in 2015!. Over 200 women applied but there were only 20 spots for female applicants available.

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And on and on and on. So many pages of google hits that you could have found yourself if you weren't so certain they didn't exist.

Now, I presume after going through those links you will retract your assertion. And since a lot of your stance was based on a bad assumption that will require you to rethink that as well. But I want to point something out. The world didn't change because you skimmed those links. The underlying reality of feminism and the world and what we are doing is the same now as it was 10 minutes ago. All that changed is that you are now more informed about reality than you were before. You just got a glimpse of herstory instead of the usual history is all. Imagine that you are me, and that you've been working with other feminists to encourage girls to see these jobs as a valid option for over a decade, and you constantly have to deal with ignorant smartasses claiming that you don't exist because anything they haven't heard of must not exist.

If you would like, you can do penance for your insulting assumptions by contributing to this kickstarter trying to get funding for a documentary on feminism's efforts to shatter the glass basement. Just as you were ignorant on this score, so are many people like you who would benefit from the existence of this documentary.