Machismo at work: a construction employer opposed to the presence of women on construction sites

Machismo at work: a construction employer opposed to the presence of women on construction sites

In 1965, a construction employer explained why, according to him, a woman engineer had no place on a site: the workers were disoriented because they had never seen a woman working on a site, it was a tough and dirty man’s job, A grip job, not for women "in stilettos". During the job interview he confessed: "at the very moment she entered, I had decided not to hire her". When the journalist pointed out to him that washing diapers is dirty," he replied that "it is a vocation". The journalist insists: "for Madame Picaud engineer it is also a vocation", he ends up admitting it but with an unconvinced air.

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File : Machismo

Publication date : 8 August 1965