Tucker, I have NEVER seen a woman doing a garbage collectors job, nor have I even HEARD of female miners. Loggers?? Steel mill workers? Any females??? Are women lined up at the employment office for any of these jobs?? I think not. I doubt that they ever will as the jobs have no "glamor". They are dirty, dangerous and middle of the road in pay. No air conditioning or water coolers, no heated building in the winter, nahh, they really don't want true "equality".
We have a female trash truck driver here.
My wife hates glamor, would rather be outside doing somtehing.. she has her own chaps, chainsaw etc... she's outside when its to hot for my tastes running or jogging etc...
She was very unhappy when they passed her over for a local camps maintenance director, she would have been outside all the time shredding, mowing, cutting limbs, and so on...
But she is a rare gem for sure. Doesn't even own a dress. I don't care for dresses either. LOL.
The whole thing in a nutshell, is I don't care what you are, if you can meet the "regs" and do your job I"m good with it.
I'd trust my wife in combat in a heartbeat, but probably couldn't find anotehr I could trust like that at all or ever likely.
But again, they are part of the country and in a time of need we should ALL step forward and be assigned what we can be good with.