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Description: | Meg needed this Bosch CSB400ET hammer drill whilst working as an apprentice electrician. She used her first week's wages to buy it. In the early 1980s women were encouraged, through free courses, to train in traditionally male trades like construction, electrical installation and plumbing. It was not an easy choice, resistance from some men to women working on-site made everyday life really uncomfortable. Meg and her female colleagues worked with one man who refused to call them 'she'. He told them 'if you're doing a job in construction, you must want to be a man and I'm going to call you 'he at all times.' He was later dismissed for sexual harassment. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Work | Temporal: | 1982 | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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