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Originally Posted by tbittner

This conversation really surprises me. Every LFS around here seems to be dominated by women employees/managers. The one main LFS (Marine Scene) where I went to learn everything is now run by a woman and she knows a LOT about what we are attempting to do. I mean, she can glance at any coral and give you the Latin and common name for it. She teaches everyone about the right way to keep a reef system. If you ask her about a fish or a coral, she asks what else you have and she tells you whether it will work or not.

When I first came here to RS, Lynn was the one answering a lot of my MANY, MANY, MANY questions and I obtained a LOT of respect for her opinion and in most cases, she backed up what the lady at the LFS was saying (yes, I was looking for second opinions at times). I don't consider this hobby to be gender specific. I've seen some plumbing jobs that blew me away and they were put together by women.

But then again, I grew up on a Dairy farm and there wasn't a mentalitiy of "That's mens work, and that is womens work." Everyone worked equally as hard as everyone else, regardless of gender. Everyone pitched in when a job needed to be done. So yeah, my mom could beat the crap out of me every bit as good as dad could if I needed it.

I'm not saying that reefing is entirely male dominated everywhere. I'm just saying that it is male dominated in my area...the "south" where certain jobs and hobbies are considered too "manly" for women.