Women In Construction

 

Take the stud industry, where the work is very similar to that of construction. Mucking out horses and working in bad weather conditions is not easy work.

Why is it therefore that women fill a lot of jobs in the stud industry, but not in construction?

Perhaps it's male chauvinist piggery in construction and the fact that studs tend to work pretty flexible hours. On our stud, you start about 7:30 or 8, have a long break in the middle of the day and then do more hours around tea-time. But when times are difficult, like with foaling or in bad weather, everyone will muck in.

On the flexible side, we've often had part-time women take the kids to school, then muck out perhaps twenty horses before lunch and then go home. They all say it's a great way to keep fit and lose weight.