![]() ![]() And, the more society accepts women in the trades, the more women will enter the trades. ![]() The more women enter the trades, the more society will accept women in the trades. Women have to see it, in order to know they can be it! We must break the mold and create a new way for society to think about women in the trades. We need to create a new paradigm where women plumbers are as ubiquitous as women teachers, nurses, doctors or lawyers. We need to make sure women know about the benefits of being a plumber and the pride that comes with being a part of this critical sector of the workforce that helps keep our country strong, safe and healthy. We need to let women see themselves as plumbers, so they know it is possible and as acceptable a profession for women as a doctor. We need to find ways of mainstreaming the idea of women plumbers through television, movies and other media. We need to interact with and engage young people and sow the idea of women plumbers in their minds as early as possible, so the concept is fully grown and second nature to them by the time they are adults. But what steps can we take, both individually and collectively to encourage more women to enter the plumbing trade? Changing society won’t be easy, but we can start by changing the way the world sees women plumbers. Despite continued outreach, I still hear trade industry professionals say, “What can I do? Women just don’t want to do this type of work!” I’m sure, not too long ago, when women were type cast as nurses you would hear people in the medical industry say, “Women don’t want to be doctors, they’d rather be nurses.” It is this bias where the problem lies. The construction trades have developed a sense of learned helplessness when it comes to the recruitment of women. Years of social bias and the push to make everyone attend a four-year college, especially women, have resulted in perpetually low numbers of women plumbers. These days we have come to readily accept women doctors but the same does not hold true for women plumbers. Replace doctor with plumber and you will find the same bias that exists for women in the medical profession is ten-fold in the plumbing industry. Some of you may be familiar with this riddle, but for those of you who are not and found yourselves struggling to solve the mystery, rest assured, you are not alone. The answer is: The little boy’s mother is the doctor. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can’t operate on him he is my son! The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. ![]() ![]() If J Withers didn't smile when she started out in film, then something must have happened along the way to mature her into the likable fun-loving, multi-talented personality into which she matures.Īnd maybe that something extra has to do with her time hard at work cleaning the pipes and pitching from the ladder as Josephine the Plumber.The Riddle: A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. She continues her acting career long after Shirley goes into politics or something, and seems to have a lot of fun with many different types of roles. Some S Temple fans still cannot get over the way J Withers bullies poor little orphan Shirley at the wealthy estate of her grouchy foster grandfather before sweet sunshine Shirley breaks down his grumpiness with her apple dumpling smiles, thus causing Jane to throw explosive skyrocketing tantrums.īut then Jane somehow matures when the War breaks out and works as a die-hart trooper in the much-needed plumbing industry, which causes her to become Shirley sweet in overalls and without the ringlets. Right, when it comes to hoping that child stars would someday mind their manners and grow up, Miss Withers really takes the cake on that one. She seems like a warm, genuine, very upbeat, likeable person. Please check out the following list of titles and celebrities I've created TMDb threads for: says: (I didn't see that when it originally aired, but caught a rerun of it roughly five years ago.) She seems like a warm, genuine, very upbeat, likeable person. Withers (who's now 93) on a TCM round-table type interview special that late TCM host Robert Osborne conducted with multiple former child stars (including also Dickie Moore, Margaret O'Brien, and Darryl Hickman) in 2006. commercials.īy the middle 1960s, she gained recognition again as "Josephine the Plumber", a character in a long-running series of television commercials for Comet cleanser, and the veteran TV-ad pitchwoman's well-known character lasted into the 1970s, and even further in the 1980s when her niece, JoAnn or Jo, would show her customers a picture of her Aunt Josephine. I'll always remember Jane Withers primarily as Josephine the Plumber in the Comet cleanser t.v. ![]()
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