>>>You can't force more women to be assembly mechanics to fill a quota.
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>>>LOL!!! Back in the 1970's I was a shop teacher.....
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>>I did better in middle school cooking than I did in metal/wood shop. I was a train wreck with shop, but I could make a killer omelet :)
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>One of the ways I know you're younger than I am. I went to junior high, not middle school, and girls took cooking and sewing, while boys had shop.
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>Tamar


I turned 51 in February. I started middle school in 1977 in the 7th grade - it was the first year (at least in Central PA) where they called it middle school instead of junior high.

I actually wasn't aware that prior to that, only boys took shop only girls took cooking/sewing. I vaguely recall I did OK at wood shop but I was a disaster at metal shop. I was great at cooking and sewing (partly because my mother and aunt had taught me a few things) - and because I could throw a baseball harder than any kid in the middle school at the time, no one gave me grief over it.