Democrat Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky suggested in a Congressional hearing that the word ‘Manufacturing’ is sexist.
Yes, really.
Because it begins with ‘man’ it is somehow holding back women from going into the manufacturing industry.
Schakowsky, the ranking Democrat member on the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, for some unfathomable reason, posited that only around 13 percent of people in manufacturing are female because the word itself just “sounds like a guy.”
The word originates from the Latin manu which means ‘hands’ and factum which means ‘made by’.
Yeah, made by hand. Anyone’s hand. Male or female.
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