Tough women don’t need guns

Step aside Sarah Palin.  Toting a machine-gun, hunting down wolves and bears in the Alaskan wild doesn’t make a woman tough.  (Especially not if she’s shooting from the air.)  How about this for tough?  Being surrounded by cranes, tractors, all sorts of heavy machinery, building materials, debris, and endless vehicles passing within feet of you at high-speed.  Women highway construction workers are found everywhere in our country, even in the “elite” Northeast.  So?  What’s your definition of tough?  Shooting wildlife from an airplane for sport?  Or, putting yourself in harm’s way building and rebuilding our nation’s roads?

A New York woman on the job, rebuilding our roads

Machinery designed to build, not kill

Highway construction worker keeping things safe