Many of us women are still waking up each morning and either going to work or to school and getting faced with chauvinism when it comes to our knowledge. I work for a major motor plant in the IS department with one other female and 8 males. We are treated as if we were their secretaries and not equals. We are given menial tasks such as getting copies, coffee, cleaning their pc's and anything phone or paper related. Both of us hold degrees in computers and nothing we say matters.

I also attend an accredited school. I'm taking cyber security and because I'm the only woman in the class, I'm met with ridicule every day from classmates. I've gone to the right people to complain only to be told that it was that person's personality. What a bunch of bull! I get left out of projects only to be told that my job is to proofread and type up the finished project. Nevermind that I know all there is to know about office phones and which printers can handle jobs better or the fact that I got the highest grade in class for networking(100%).

And don't even get me started on the fact that I can tear an engine apart and repair my own vehicles! Men just don't want to believe that. I once had a dealer knock 2,000 off a car as an apology when I found out I did the repairs to the cars. I also had a mechanic try to tell me that I did not have a certain part on my car to pass emissions. I grabbed my repair manual and showed him exactly where it was and his response was that he'd never worked on a Toyota before

Some days I just want to take Homey the Clowns baton and hit these men on the head with it!