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Woman’s world
W
hen I was younger, I had the opportunity to visit my mom at her job
during one of those “Take Our Daughters to Work” days. This was
back in the early ‘90s – long before the event became the dual-
gendered “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” in 2003.
My mom worked on the line at Buick City; Flint, Michigan’s massive
automotive complex.
She was one woman in a sea of men, and when I went to experience what
her day-to-day was like, I remember the intense, stifling heat matched with
an air that stung your nostrils. I recall car bodies that swung across the plant,
dangling from the line like carcasses in a meat processing facility. But above
all, I remember there were just a lot of men around. Men hammering. Men
painting. Men walking. Men supervising.
I was on the phone recently interviewing Lois Boyd, president of Hertz
Equipment Rental Corporation, for this issue’s “Women in Access” feature
when Boyd struck a chord with me. She was talking about her early career
days and her own automotive shop experience – back in the day she was
involved in the hydraulics arena and her clients included Chrysler and
American motors – and she mentioned how the plants then weren’t very
female-friendly.
“In those kinds of environments you have to be courageous,” she said. “You
can’t be easily offended. Men would be howling on the lines as you rode by
in a little golf cart and I’d just have to wave or take a bow. After a point, then,
instead of trying to confront women, the guys become a little bit offended so
they’d hide their nudey calendars when I came in. I was a woman in a really
male-dominated industry then.”
And to a degree, Boyd still is.
“Being a woman coming into this industry, most people were very skeptical
about it,” she said about her beginnings at HERC. “But what I do is bring
different things to them. I bring visions from outside and visions of what the
future should look like.”
More and more women are entering the aerial, rental and related markets,
but it’s still a very dominant male field. I spoke with a handful of women who
work in our industry – from engineers to rental company owners – about their
experiences and how they view today’s workplace versus yesterday. Check out
the feature starting on page 30 – and don’t worry, guys, they don’t bash you
(too much.)
With that, enjoy the rest of these summer days and make sure to drop me a
line with any interesting jobsite stories, news or product information.
Thanks for reading.
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