I’m a female carpenter and work on a construction site full of men – I get asked some seriously sexist questions

A FEMALE carpenter is hitting when at outdated expectations of women in the workplace with a rocking sense of humor.

Jess Bessell is breaking new ground as a carpenter and is sharing her life and work on her TikTok platform.

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Jess gets asked all sorts of out-dated questions well-nigh working in a male-dominated industry
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Carpentry is traditionally a male-dominated profession, but young women like Jess are whence to make their mark.

She is a rare successors as one of the few women working on a construction site full of men.

Jess loves her work but is less keen on the old-fashioned questions she has to endure at her workplace.

No shrinking violet, she tackles them with humor in her TikTok posts.

She captions her latest video with: “Some of the questions I get asked.”

First up is: “What made you get into this then luv?”

Followed by the all-time classic: “Do you have a boyfriend?”

And finally, flipside banger: “Does your boyfriend mind you working with all those men?”

Comments to her post were both empathetic and impressed by the chutzpah of this young chippie.

Another woman in a male-dominated industry related to her post: “Yep, I finger the pain.”

Another said: “I have my pearly share of men like this on site. But there is hope for the male species I currently work with are a load of unconfined guys.”

A sexuality engineer shared her story: “My fave has been, ‘you’re vitally sexuality to be an engineer!’”

A dad understood too: “I’m a groundworker and my 17-year-old daughter is my apprentice. She gets these questions all the time.”

Finally, alimony up the good work: “Keep doing what you’re doing. As a woman, I’d much rather rent flipside woman than a man. We need you.”