Don't you worry your pretty little head...

[debilorrah]

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[zzGypsy]

I"m taking an Annie's Project class through the MO extension service - it's ALL women farmers/ranchers - about 20 of us!
pretty fun, actually, all different kinds of experience, from lifetime-of-farming to just getting started. It's a fun group, smart and interesting. and some ladies in there are just get-it-done-ranch-tough.

I don't actually have a *lot* of trouble with the old-boys, I'm so used to working with men that I'm one of them. I think mostly because of my demeanor they just don't react to me like they would a lot of women...
or maybe it's the glock .45...

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

 

[Royd]

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Sounds like a hen party to me.....Just kidding...Sticking with the theme of the thread.

 

[al6517]

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Sounds like a hen party to me.....Just kidding...Sticking with the theme of the thread.

and alot of this...

 

[faerielady]

I get this sometimes. Go to the feed store, they ask whoever is with me what I need. Usually James (who is usually the one who gets suckered into going with me) points at me and says "Ask her, this is her thing." Throws them for a loop. Just because I'm short and female doesn't mean I need someone else, particularly a man, to make decisions for me. That is why I have two ex-husbands. Well, that and the fact that I have bad taste in men.

 

[darkmatter]

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Huh......all my co-workers think my little piece of heaven in the country must be like that. And I don't worry my pretty little head........cause I don't have one----pretty that is.

 

[sgtmom52]

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I am a 5'2" , 108 pound (when I started

) woman who spent 28 years as a police officer. I was also a training officer and a shift supervisor ~ but there wasn't a day that went by when I didn't have people ignore me and wanted to speak with the 6'8" male rookie I was training instead of a "little girl". I didn't have any problems letting them know who was in charge when it was important, although it was a great training tool as it forced the rookies into dealing with the people as I could blend into the background.

 

[texasgal]

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Gee .. who would he talk to ???

 

[Marcymom3]

My husband is a great "assistant" with the garden and the chickens. He says, "Just tell me what you want me to do." and then he does it.

He's a very fine gentleman, don't you think?

As far as questions from others or conversations directed to him, mine also says, "Ask her, she's the brains of this outfit, I'm just the muscle." See? We all know our place and it works just fine.

There will always be people who think women shouldn't do such work or be involved in what were traditionally male roles. We need to remind them of the women who were widowed with kids at a young age who had to do it to survive. And what about those who stepped into these roles when their husbands went off to war? During WWII my aunt worked at a Rosie the Riveter job at the Martin Marietta plant in Maryland and did the work of probably three men in 16 hour shifts six days a week. When the men came home from the war, she was "let go." That was then, this is now, but I dunno... I guess we can't do anything about people who WANT to stay ignorant.

Stay proud of what you're doing and don't let ignorant people get you down!