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Men always talk about how
"women are the weaker sex," right?

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Quote.

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And they say,
“Oh, they can't handle the weight lifting

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or they'll hurt themselves."

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But like in our job description,
we're only supposed to lift 25 pounds.

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And there's a specialized trade called
riggers, which do most

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of the heavy lifting for us.

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And if there is heavy lifting,
I think women have to do what I call is

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work smart, you know.

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Instead of actually lifting it,
maybe think about how you can make

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the job easier.

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Ask for help if you need to,
because it's not only women who need help,

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but men that also need help.

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And if a job is so terribly big
that you can't physically do it yourself,

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I think there’re ways
that women can contribute to a job.

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For example; give the lead-

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give the direction
on how the job can go easier.

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Give the theoretical background
behind the job, that kind of thing.

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And there're ways to compensate for that
and I don't think strength

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is really a big issue.

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You know, should be a big issue.

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(Chris Conybeare)
Well, you know, I was thinking

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about this earlier, when we talked
a little bit before we started here,

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about the fact that during World War II,
the shipyards were pretty much run

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by women.

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Do people have had forgotten that?

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(Cindy Pierson)
Not at all, not at all.

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In fact, we are developing
a very elaborate photo display

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at the Arizona War Memorial Museum

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on the Women War Workers

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during World War II.

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And what it is is a gigantic photos
of the women working as riveters,

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pipe fitters, machinists, rubber workers,
that type of thing.

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And it's really-
unfortunately when the men went out to war

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the women took over their jobs
and they did a darn good job at it.

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And when they came back home,
the women were sent back to the kitchens.

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But we still have a lot of women working
in the skilled trades area.

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Charlene, does it get lonely out there?

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How many women are there at the shipyard
or where you work?

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Are there any other women there?

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I think Cindy has the statistics
on the number of women there.

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But it does get lonely.

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There are not that many women
for me to talk to.

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But over the years I think largely
because of the recruitment,

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there are more women on the waterfront.

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And I think it's been a very good,
very good development,

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because it's changed the attitudes
of the men towards women in the workforce.

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And they can see that women can handle
the job and that they are responsible,

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they are smart enough,
and they are strong enough to do it.

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(Chris Conybeare)
Yeah, I was going to say there are some

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men who can't lift everything too, right?

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(Charlene Nakamura)
Right.

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(Chris Conybeare)
Stanley, what kind of jobs are women

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holding now in terms of some
of the skilled trades that you deal with?

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Well we have women in the carpentry field.

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We have them in the Operating Engineers,
heavy equipment operator type.