Is this lady repairing a wire wheel?

[LotusOmega375D]

Just spotted this on BBC News main page. Not the sort of generic “work” photo I expected for the story.

[shih tzu faced]

Motorbike wheel by the look of it.

Tidy bit of tackle doing the job too.

[LotusOmega375D]

Is this the same mechanic on the BBC website again? Looks like she’s turning her attention to something more contemporary. She’s certainly easier on the eye than any mechanic I’ve ever met.

[anonymous-user]

It's a bit sad that a mechanic being a woman is comment worthy, but things change slowly.

My dad had to argue with his boss to hire the first two women graduate engineers in BL. That was in the 1970s. I hope that things have improved since then. In my job, it's roughly a 50- 50 male female split in entry level recruitment these days, but glass ceilings persist.

[Equus]

Breadvan72 said:

It's a bit sad that a mechanic being a woman is comment worthy, but things change slowly.

A major national housebuilder that I worked for still had an (unwritten, obviously) policy of not employing female design/technical staff as late as 2007. My Infrastructure Engineer was the first one we employed, after the Group Design Manager responsible for the policy was finally removed.

[Boosted LS1]

She's probably got a hairy builders crack. That would turn most people off.

[Venisonpie]

Breadvan72 said:

It's a bit sad that a mechanic being a woman is comment worthy, but things change slowly.

My dad had to argue with his boss to hire the first two women graduate engineers in BL. That was in the 1970s. I hope that things have improved since then. In my job, it's roughly a 50- 50 male female split in entry level recruitment these days, but glass ceilings persist.

I work for a passenger transport company which maintains a fleet of circa 6000 buses. It's always reassuring when I'm in the workshop and there are female technicians walking round with prop shafts the size of a small tree. Plenty of them too.

No fnarring required.