2024 in Review: Tackling Sexism, Inclusion & the Future | Garage Talk Unwrapped Bonus Episode

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In this special bonus episode of Garage Talk Unwrapped, Ben and Vicky Coates reflect on 2024, extending heartfelt thanks to the industry for its ongoing support 🙏.
They dive into pressing issues that have dominated over the past 12 months, such as diversity, inclusion, and sexism, with Vicky sharing her personal experiences from the past two years. The conversation also covers challenges in recruitment 👥 across the industry, the electric vehicle (EV) dilemma ⚡🚗, and what lies ahead for Garage Talk in 2025 🔮.
Don't miss this insightful discussion on the future of the industry as this Automotive Aftermarket phenomenon celebrates the end of its first year of Garage Talk Unwrapped! 🎉
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[@ef7480]

Only 20% of women are in the industry for a reason. Just like only a small percentage are in mining or oil rig work or working outdoors in terrible weather on building sites. Why would they want to do that? Social engineering never works. 'More CEO positions for women' - it's only ever the cushy jobs or high paid jobs that somehow need to have a 50/50 quota. In order to justify this 'diversity and inclusion' nonsense, the quota needs to be across ALL industries, ALL job roles and ALL manual labour positions. Based on this obvious natural sorting of men and women job roles I think women will always 'choose' less physically demanding jobs for a reason- and I wouldnt blame them. They tried it in Sweden and it didn't seem to work. Not sure why....

[@garagetalkonline]

Interesting comments. Working in the automotive industry doesn't necessarily mean "physically demanding jobs", although we see no reason why the gender of a person comes into wanting to be a mechanic, for example. The worrying point is, even if women work in an automotive business, in any kind of role, they are not made to feel welcome, or equal.
We think there is a lack of encouragement from parents and schools to educate their children (especially girls) about working in the automotive industry.
One thing it certainly isn't, is "nonsense", especially when there is a recruitment issue across the industry, yet we seem to cancel out certain areas of the population by our old school thinking.

[@ArchibaldMcPherson-q6n]

@@garagetalkonline- fair response. Or, maybe men and women just naturally sort themselves. The most female dominated subjects are performing arts, health and social care and sociology, the most male dominated subjects are computer science and I.T., construction and engineering.

[@garagetalkonline]

@@ArchibaldMcPherson-q6n Yes, we think all people want is fairness and for industries to be welcoming. The most worrying stat for us is that 50% of females leave less than a year after coming into Automotive.