What's a Lady Tramp?
A Lady Tramp is a female traveling craftsman. (In my case an electrician) There are carpenters, plumpers, pipefitters, etc.
What's the big deal?
The big deal is that there are very few of us. We are considered pioneers in our fields because women weren't allowed into the trades until the last 15 to 20 years. Even more unique is a tramping (traveling) female craftsman. Traveling and working has been neither safe or condusive to a woman's life style in the past. Leaving children and spouses at home to work out of state has been a traditionally male acceptable role. A single woman traveling and working in the past may have given Lady Tramp a definition that is completely inaccurate.
The purpose of this blog is to give the perspective of a Lady Tramp's trials, tribualtions, and triumphs.
I myself am a Lady Tramp. I've been traveling this great country of ours for nye on ten years and really, truly enjoy it most of the time. My mother, who has been a newspaper woman for over 35 years exclaimed once, "I wish they wouldn't call you a tramp!" I told her it was actually an honor, or rather a status symbol that we are all very proud of. The first time she applied for a job in the newspaper business was in 1952, at the Galveston Daily News, Texas' oldest newspaper, she was turned down because she wasn't a man!
Thanks for letting me share.
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Posted by: Oswaldo Kozlovsky at January 15, 2011 12:52 AM