at the tafe last night spoke to a lady who i'm guessing won't be seeing 35 again, and the same went for most of the people on her course.
She said that soon after the course commenced she had to use a drill - everyone else stopped what they were doing to watch her to see if she knew what she was doing.
Which is pretty sad really as drilling a hole in a piece of wood requires less skill than making a dress, following a complicated knitting pattern or whipping up a dinner for 6 - none of which would have attracted an audience.
DaveInOz is right to an extent - There is a problem with girls adding traditionally male skills to their repertoires in that you can then be perceived as being a bit of a threat ... lets face it if you can do the job as well as or better than he can then you won't be inclined to admire their wonderful achievement in fixing the bookshelf to the wall approximately horizontal and almost capable of holding a single paperback book before gravity wins.
i.e. for a female the better your non-traditional skill set the fewer potential partners you have. One hopes that this will change with the new generation being used to seeing women in a wider spread of roles.
