Female's on the tools?

[David Goss]

Thank god for a bit of, gasp!, common sense .

 

Man, woman, straight, gay, bi, black, white, Asian, Christian, Jedi.... Does it really matter?

 

 

YES!!! those Jedi are sneaky sods! i wouldnt trust them as far as i could throw them. And they just sit there saying things like "you did a good job" and "have double the cash" and you find yourself repeating it and giving them the extra!!

Never again! i say send em back to their own planet, bloody leaches

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thank god for a bit of, gasp!, common sense .

 

Man, woman, straight, gay, bi, black, white, Asian, Christian, Jedi.... Does it really matter?

 

Attitude and physical and mental ability are the important issues, not someone's gender. I've worked with lazey women and lazey men. I've also worked with hugely talented and inspiring women and again, men.

 

Yes, there are very few women in arb' and forestry (3% according to LANTRA). I don't think this is an issue unless we make it an issue. With so much positive discrimination towards women (which I don't agree with, btw), we, as a gender, have far more opportunities and funding available than any man coming into the idustry. Is this fair? Is this equality? Does this mean that women are somehow more suitable to work with trees? No, it doesn't. It just means that someone in a position of power has deemed that that there needs to be a more even proportion of men to women, regardless of an individual's apptitude towards the job.

 

I've worked bloody hard to get taken seriously as a professional arboriculturalist, not a female arboriculturalist, please note. I am an individual, with my own strengths and weaknesses and my gender is totally and utterly irrelevant. Which is how it should be for anyone.

 

I have and always will respect you as an arb janey:thumbup1:

[janey]

I have and always will respect you as an arb janey:thumbup1:

 

One down, only several thousand to go

[WoodED]

One down, only several thousand to go

 

IM WITH YOU TO

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

One down, only several thousand to go

 

oh come on loads of us here respect your arb janey!

[janey]

Yeah, us bikers stick together

 

On a serious note, this whole women in the industry, women on the tools, can women climb as well as men blah blah blah topic gets very tedious and I get quite irritated by it.

 

My gender has never been an issue in this industry. And I will never let it be. We are all individuals with our own merits and if anyone is stupid enough to stereotype me because I am a woman, then they are not worth my time and they are certainly not worthy of being called a professional.

[Pat Ferrett]

I think every tree gang should have a token woman arb! It guarantees you'll get tea and cakes from the customer and also the use of the toilet

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think every tree gang should have a token woman arb! It guarantees you'll get tea and cakes from the customer and also the use of the toilet

 

and those being the most viable reasons?

[janey]

oh come on loads of us here respect your arb janey!

 

So you only love me for my arb, huh ?

[Sam Thompson]

One down, only several thousand to go

 

I respect anyone who works up through the ranks to a position they are happy with. Male, female or cross dresser.