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IT’S A WO(MAN’S) WORLD

Have you heard the one about the builder who wolf-whistled at a woman in her own home? (Thanks for sharing that shocker, Lou McLolin.) Or the successful female renovations vlogger who found this choice message beneath one of her videos: ‘You are a beautiful and active woman and you love the work, but do you know that the important work for women is to have a family and children and take care of them?’ ‘Sadly, a small group of men can’t handle women doing labour-intensive jobs,’ says Vikkie Lee, aka The Carpenter’s Daughter, whose YouTube channel it was. ‘But we’ll carry on evolving and

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