On Working Women in a Man's World, part 2

My daughter was always interested in cars. When she was 10 years old she told me that she was going to have a garage when she grew up and restore all the cool muscle cars of the 60's and 70's. I always supported that. When it was time to go to high school, she went to the local school and freshman year she took the only classes offered pertaining to engines and cars. She had gone to the guidance office and told them she was transferring to vocational school for sophomore year so she could work on cars and brought home the paperwork for me to sign. She was always very responsible and knew how to get things done. A force to be reckoned with. The started exploratory shops in vocational school and was not accepted into auto mechanics since she had not attended freshman year there and wouldn't have enough hours to complete the requirements. Had she know that going in to, things may have been different. She ended up taking welding but she always said-she didn't pick welding, it picked her. She graduated as the "best" in the welding class, won lots of awards, made a mother proud. She also one a one year scholarship to attend night school at the vocatoinal school so she could take aut mechanincs. The day after graduation, she started a full time welding job at the local place that would give a female a chance. And beleive me, these places have no qualms about being open and telling you they won't hire you because you are a woman! A local Aamco Transmissions place actually laughed and her and basically threw her out when she went to apply for a job. What are you going to do? Go around suing everybody? Make them hire you and make your life miserable? She has worked in this welding shop for over two years and attended full time night school to learn auto mechanincs. She has been sexually harassed, by co-workers and by others that visit the shop, as well as by the guys in school. Some if it is more extreme than others. Not everyone she works with harasses her, and some have learned to respect her because she is good at welding. She has developed thick skin. She is very pretty and petite in height, two attributes that have worked for and against her in this man's world. Her boyfriend (and I) get more upset about the harrassment than she does anymore. But when we get back to the money thing...is she earning the same wage as her "fellow" welders.....uh....no...not even close.