On factory floors, women never replace men like they did in offices with computers

We all knew when computers became common in the 1980s, and the 1990s began, that women would replace male white-collar workers. And they did.<br><br>However, when the factory doors opened to women in 1917 (Russia), 1920 (USA), and 1945 (France), women were never able to replace (100%) men in blue-collar jobs working with their hands. Manufacturing, construction, [... ]<br><br>Women always stayed minority on factory floors because such jobs require more physical strength (human muscle) than clerical work, which is sedentary, mostly Chair-FPS, and very much task-oriented for routine processes of basic office work like alphabetizing files, answering phone calls, maintaining paper records, making photocopies, ...<br><br>Make no mistake: I am not saying women are not present at all on factory floors, I saying women never have replaced men like they did in offices, in factories. Moreover, many jobs require night shifts, and many women stop working at 30 when they have children.<br><br>Moreover, many workshops are not child-bearing age women-friendly. For example, workshops with high temperature, or wet conditions. Many women don't like working night shifts in industrial environments.<br><br>Imho, manufacturing, construction, engineering, etc, male-jobs will always be protected from female incursion by the requirement of physical strength and body endurance.<br><br>When you do Chair-FPS work in an office, you don't need to bring any skills and qualifications. Human Resources (HR) is filled with women. The idea is to bring a woman who will test proficiently in the job training they provide in the first month. In offices, workers do a narrow category of tasks, and there is a book of instructions you follow, in addition to a trainer. Chair-FPS software has menus like Microsoft Windows, and you just point and click, for example.<br><br>Factory work requires manual dexterity, reaction time, standing up for 8 hours, lifting heavy objects,忍and often night shifts. Women can't lift heavy objects as much as men, can't do repetitive physical work for 40 hours/week, and factory work is often in dirty environments hostile to women. They also need to be hands-on with tools (e.g. drill press, jigsaw, band saw, ... )<br><br>So blue-collar jobs working with hands are safe from women, but to a certain extent they are also more expendable.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Besides clerical work, women never replaced male telephone operators. And as a consequence, these jobs were automated away to voice responders, and nobody complained.