From Fox News:
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky says the word manufacturing ‘sounds like a guy,’ might be why field has few women
During a hearing on Wednesday, a Democratic lawmaker in the House said the reason why fewer women are involved in manufacturing could be because the term has the word “man” in it.
“Yesterday I met with a manufacturing company, but they also are engaged in getting young people more engaged in manufacturing,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said during a Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade subcommittee hearing entitled “AI in Manufacturing: Securing American Leadership in Manufacturing and the Next Generation of Technologies.”
Schakowsky continued by saying she thinks that fewer women are in manufacturing because the word itself sounds too male.
“So, I asked them, so, how many of those students that are signing up and want to do this? How many are women?” Schakowsky said, adding that they told her it was at least 13%.
“It was a low number,” she said. “And you had mentioned trying to engage more women in manufacturing. I’m just wondering if just the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.”
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Here’s the derivation of the word:
My Latin is from 1956-58. too far back not to need the help above.
