Re: Male Chauvinism Of Former Times (was: TOT: Public Version of Family Archive)

From	Folderol <general@musically.me.uk>
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Subject	Re: Male Chauvinism Of Former Times (was: TOT: Public Version of Family Archive)
Date	2022-05-27 18:23 +0100
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On Fri, 27 May 2022 16:55:45 +0100
"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
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>There was an age and seniority issue (she was my manager) which is why I was 
>bending over backwards to be tactful and to avoid her feeling silly. Next 
>time I rode with her, she was fine, and she joked that she'd been 
>practicing. So it wasn't "typical woman driver" - it was just that she had 
>been taught very badly and had never experimented with doing things 
>differently to what she'd been taught. She was a people manager rather than 
>an engineer - maybe my scientific/engineering background made me more likely 
>to experiment "what if". 

During WW2 my Mum was cherry-picked from the land girls and trained as a
mechanic. By the end of that time she was able to drive and maintain any
non track-laying vehicle.

Afterwards, it wasn't until the mid 1950s that the family got a car and she
needed to get a license. In those days it was not unusual to just go for a test
without any driving lessons, and to the examiners amazement, she handled the car
near perfectly (in a rare moment of honesty, Dad admitted she drove better than
him). She was also the scourge of any motor mechanic who tried to con her :)

-- 
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