Comments on: Engineers, Authors, and Assassins – Thriving in a Nontraditional Field https://booksbywomen.org/engineers-authors-and-assassins-thriving-in-a-nontraditional-field-by-k-m-pohlkamp/ Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:37:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: K.M. Pohlkamp https://booksbywomen.org/engineers-authors-and-assassins-thriving-in-a-nontraditional-field-by-k-m-pohlkamp/#comment-48900 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:37:03 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20705#comment-48900 In reply to Linda Strader.

Thank you for your comment Linda, but more importantly, thank you for your bravery to work in the Forest Service fire crew and especially as the first woman. When one of us forges a path in one field, it helps out the rest. Good luck with your memoir!

]]> By: Linda Strader https://booksbywomen.org/engineers-authors-and-assassins-thriving-in-a-nontraditional-field-by-k-m-pohlkamp/#comment-48899 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:04:10 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20705#comment-48899 As one of the first women to work on a Forest Service fire crew in the 1970s, I can relate to the challenges of women in men’s jobs, but to see the bias in the publishing world makes no sense to me! And yet there it is. While I’ve been waiting for my memoir about my firefighting days to be released next May, I have been writing about “women firsts” in my blog. It is quite amazing what women have accomplished not only as the first woman, but as the first person to have done these things. And yet, women are still seen as inferior. How frustrating to see that although it’s been 40 years since I faced discrimination working on a fire crew, that women are still being treated in the same way. Why aren’t parents teaching their sons equality?

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