[Sca-cooks] RE: Male vs. female cooks

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In a message dated 7/8/02 3:28:25 PM Central Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
writes:


> Given. However, your commitment _in the face of_ discrimination and
> back-breaking physical labor is the issue, and men, who don't usually
> get very much sexual harassment from male chefs (although I have
> actually seen it from female chefs toward male employees as with the
> reverse situation) seem to have a generally easier time with the
> lifting of the 80-quart stock-pots and such. Again, this is similar
> to the situation faced by potential female firefighters: take the
> next ten men you meet on the street, and the next ten women, and have
> them sling somebody over their shoulder and carry them down a couple
> of flights of stairs. Commitment or not, I suspect mass and genetics
> will dictate that a somewhat higher number of the ten men will be
> able to do it, versus the number of the ten woman that can. This
> isn't a sex-based value judgement, merely a statement of fact, or at
> least probability.
>
>

As far as weight lifting and moving is concerned, I know a couple women from
my graduating class who had problems with that issue. The rest of us, and
there were a total of 15 (out of 35)of us in my class, simply worked out and
got stronger. Or found ways to improvise. Work SMARTER not HARDER. It comes
down to mind set I think. If you think you can do it, you will. But if you
let something as frivolous as gender get in your way, you've already lost the
drive. Granted that I think I was something of an anomaly, but I also knew
going into the restaurant biz, what kind of work was required and didn't balk
at it.


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