Household Tools for Women?
About five years ago, I was browsing through the in flight magazine while I was waiting for my airplane to take off. I usually sort of half look at things in those magazines but never really consider buying any of the products listed “Too pricy” is what I usually think.
But I came across and article about a couple of companies who were making and marketing household tools for women. What? Tools for women. What kind of tool does a woman need? Isn’t a hammer a hammer and a screw driver a screws driver? What’s up with women’s tools? My interest was definitely piqued. I read on. Pliers with soft pink grips and placed aesthetically in a pink box. Oh yeah that’s appealing. How manly is that? It’s still a level but now the bubble was cute and PINK.
Wait there’s more. It turns out these companies were making the tools a little bit smaller, to better fit the size of a woman’s hand. Not quite so heavy either. So this tool box wasn’t just the same old socket wrench repackaged to make women think they were so cute. These tools were actually re engineered and designed with women in mind! OK, that’s cool. But still why do women need their own tools? I should have instinctively known the answer to that one. Why indeed. After all I was a single mother with a fixer- upper house. I had collected quite an array of gadgets and thingies to handle a home owner’s little challenges.
Well I was not alone. For the last several years, women have been doing more of the jobs that were typically thought to be men’s work. Think about it. Women are pilots, doctors, lawyers, CEO’s and heck, even military combat personnel so why shouldn’t she have her own designer measuring tape? Yep, Women are buying houses alone; women are staying single longer or becoming single again. Who is going to fix the leaky faucet or patch the hole in the drywall after a rousing indoor teen-ager soccer game? I was reminded of a single woman friend of mine who when we were talking about finding the right man to complete our lives she said something like this. “I used to look for men who were strong and handsome and Prince Charming like. But now that I am a home owner, I think I am looking for a man who can fix stuff. Maybe I should date a plumber for a while, then a roofer, then a painter.”
Oops, sorry. Can’t say I just want him for his repair abilities. It wouldn’t be right. So I guess it’s was inevitable; Women’s tool boxes: Man not included. But do I have to get the pink set?
But I came across and article about a couple of companies who were making and marketing household tools for women. What? Tools for women. What kind of tool does a woman need? Isn’t a hammer a hammer and a screw driver a screws driver? What’s up with women’s tools? My interest was definitely piqued. I read on. Pliers with soft pink grips and placed aesthetically in a pink box. Oh yeah that’s appealing. How manly is that? It’s still a level but now the bubble was cute and PINK.
Wait there’s more. It turns out these companies were making the tools a little bit smaller, to better fit the size of a woman’s hand. Not quite so heavy either. So this tool box wasn’t just the same old socket wrench repackaged to make women think they were so cute. These tools were actually re engineered and designed with women in mind! OK, that’s cool. But still why do women need their own tools? I should have instinctively known the answer to that one. Why indeed. After all I was a single mother with a fixer- upper house. I had collected quite an array of gadgets and thingies to handle a home owner’s little challenges.
Well I was not alone. For the last several years, women have been doing more of the jobs that were typically thought to be men’s work. Think about it. Women are pilots, doctors, lawyers, CEO’s and heck, even military combat personnel so why shouldn’t she have her own designer measuring tape? Yep, Women are buying houses alone; women are staying single longer or becoming single again. Who is going to fix the leaky faucet or patch the hole in the drywall after a rousing indoor teen-ager soccer game? I was reminded of a single woman friend of mine who when we were talking about finding the right man to complete our lives she said something like this. “I used to look for men who were strong and handsome and Prince Charming like. But now that I am a home owner, I think I am looking for a man who can fix stuff. Maybe I should date a plumber for a while, then a roofer, then a painter.”
Oops, sorry. Can’t say I just want him for his repair abilities. It wouldn’t be right. So I guess it’s was inevitable; Women’s tool boxes: Man not included. But do I have to get the pink set?
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