Three quarters of women think they are as good as men at DIY

[John Rumm]

Apologies for the source, but:

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[S Viemeister]

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Only 46% will change a fuse? Only 79% can change a lightbulb? Since when does changing a _lightbulb_ count as DIY???

[ARWadsworth]

>> Discuss ;-)

Three quarters of women can think?

[The Medway Handyman]

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Interesting that ;

"Female home ownership has grown, with one in five households now owned by single women".

I would say that 80% of my work is generated by females, with or without partners.

Either; partner is deceased, partner is useless, partner is bone idle or partner has left.

[The Medway Handyman]

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Quite often.

I change loads in offices & commercial premises. H&S!

[Nightjar]

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Don't knock it. When I was in my 20s, it was being able to do things like that that got me accepted as a house mate by three air hostesses.

Colin Bignell

[S Viemeister]

My daughter had two male flatmates. She was the only one with a tool-kit. The boys were totally useless at DIY. But she was raised by a mother and father who actually have a clue...

[dennis]

>> Discuss ;-)

I would say they under rate themselves. There aren't many men that are good at diy.

[Frank Erskine]

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Yebbut that's hardly d-i-y innit.

[Ramsman]

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No, they only think they can.

[Andrew Gabriel]

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However, that could be because more blokes are prepared to live with the tap dripping, the bog leaking, most of the light bulbs blown, and the tiles falling off the wall.

Doesn't necessarily follow that blokes do more DIY.

Using the Yellow Pages handyman section because they don't know how to use Internet dating and have a thing about blokes in dungarees, leather tool belt and toe-tecs? ;-)

[root]

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And the other quarter have actually tried doing DIY? ...

Oh, it's from The Wail - should've known.

[robgraham]

I suppose it's a valid survey for B'nQ as it will guide them in whom to attract to their stores. The weakness with the survey is that it will have asked the questions of women that B'n Q want answered for marketing purposes,not for the real reason. One of the questions that should have been asked with some sort of multi choice answer is what is DIY? If it is just painting, hanging wall paper, etc., then theirs no reason why the women can't be left to these boring tasks

Personally these are not DIY - these are 'decorating' and that goes hand in hand with choosing furniture, carpets and the likes; women's tasks.

If the survey had then gone on to ask about doing repairs, sorting electrical problems, drainage problems and all the other less glamorous tasks then the 5 would have dropped very considerably. "Do you know to us a hammer properly, use a saw, sharpen a plane, use a chisel?".. Big NO all round.

Most women know nothing about DIY. Typical use of statistics!! Rob

[ARWadsworth]

Time for a repost of Benny Benassi's video IMHO

[Roger Mills]

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There's no fundamental reason why women shouldn't be able to do DIY tasks if they set their mind on it - but they're likely to suffer from the disadvantage they they probably won't have acquired any basic DIY skills when young. When I was at school (50+ years ago, so it may be different now!) the boys did woodwork and metalwork, whilst the girls did Domestic Science - whatever that was!

As others have said, a lot depends on how you define "DIY" - but if you define it in terms of the stuff which gets discussed most on this NG, the proportion of female participants isn't that high, based on the male female posting ratio.

I have a feeling that women tend to be more end-oriented - so they will acquire the skill to do a specific job whereas men are more likely to acquire skills (and tools!) as an end in itself - with the result that they can turn their hand to a wider variety of jobs, and sometimes produce innovative solutions to problems they haven't net before. OK, this is a bit of a generalisation(!), but I think it has *some* validity.

[Steve Walker]

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Some women certainly can do DIY. Others haven't a clue. Just like men really! I think that more men than women have been brought up practicing DIY skills with their fathers though.

When it comes to the "heavier" end of DIY, most women are generally less able to picture sizes and a 3D idea and spin it round in their head, giving men an advantage in working out anything "structural" or where things have to be designed and built up and then manouevered into a tight space. This is apparently part of why a higher proportion of women than men have accidents turning right across traffic.

SteveW

[ARWadsworth]

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[The Medway Handyman]

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I should be so lucky :-)

[Nightjar]

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A woman on the radio tonight simply taught herself, because her husband is away on business a lot. She claims he is worried that he will come back one day and find she has built an extension on the house. From the list of jobs she has already tackled, I think he may be right to worry.

Colin Bignell

[Jules Richardson]

Surprising, isn't it? Normally it's only the bit above the shoulders, which is more like 1/14th...