Yesterday morning when I went to work, a construction crew from the city was moving a heavy planter and doing work with front end loader where a car had recently crashed into an old planter (how on earth that happened I had not a crew). They were doing a quick efficient job, early in the morning before traffic could crowd the street or parking lot.
When I cross the street something occurred to me, remarkable in this era only in that I noted it. Every single member of the construction crew was a young woman. Probably none of them were over 30 years of age, and not one man was on the crew.
This isn't really remarkable, except that it wasn't all that long ago when women construction workers were a real rarity. Heavy construction with heavy equipment, such as this, was certainly almost all male, not all that long ago. Indeed, a couple of years ago some heavy construction crews downtown were both all male, and all Hispanic, reflecting a traditional situation in which these jobs often went to immigrant men.
Well, not this crew. An interesting sign of how times have changed.
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