Sociology 2169 Midterm: Hard Hatted Women Video Summary
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In the article hard hatted women: life on the job, mary ruggiero"s interview outlined the many challenges women face in the workplace including: sexual harassment, physical challenges, survival skills, danger of work and others. Mary first discusses why she left her job at lipton"s, as she was a victim of of sexual harassment by her boss. After she left she decided to take up welding as this is what the unemployment office had guided her to do and it paid the most. Her experience in the welding field was no better than lipton"s. As welding is a male-oriented industry, the men around her felt threatened by woman"s skill. She mentions that one of her fellow female welders was moved to another job just because her talents in the field surpassed any mans. Men were threatened that woman would take their jobs so they sabotaged them.