Christian Allard SNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @christia_allard@respublicae.eu

@jrclarkbf800 @CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I’ve been in the industry long enough and I know how much of a male environment it still is.
Any ideas on how to change this for the better?

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@CrabbySkipper @FemaleFisherman @sff_uk I do, yet introducing gender neutral language when naming awards is no big deal and will help girls see a future for themselves in fishing.
What’s not to like?
RT @christia_allard: @CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I had a quick look:
Tapping all our Talents
Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: a strategy for Scotlan…

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@isleseafoods @CrabbySkipper @jrclarkbf800 Don’t you want more women in the industry?
If you do, here is how you get there:
RT @christia_allard: @CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I had a quick look:
Tapping all our Talents
Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: a strategy for Scotland
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Page 43
124 Elections and awards
https://ar…

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RT @gavinesler: “Computer says no.” (Seriously? Is this the best we can do for a government?)

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RT @olafdoesstuff: A moment to be proud of, and to build on.

Let’s be a Scotland of Kenmure Street, not Downing Street. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊🏼

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@cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @Hipferd @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk There are firefighters and police officers all over the country now when they were only firemen and policemen in the past, a very distant past.
Isn’t it time to move on?

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I had a quick look:
Tapping all our Talents
Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: a strategy for Scotland
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Page 43
124 Elections and awards
http://archive2021.parliament.scot/S4_EqualOpportunitiesCommittee/Dr_Caroline_Wallace.pdf

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I’m engaging, I’ve been engaging on this issue for years with many representatives of the industry and getting nowhere while other professions have made the change decades ago.

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk Absolutely, there are many issues and challenges in the industry.
This particular one on word choice is about the future of the industry.

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@CrabbySkipper @isleseafoods @jrclarkbf800 There is a great heritage and history of the generations of men who called themselves firemen.
The heritage and history is still there, actively remembered and taught at school but with the change of wording that fits the 21st century.

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk It’s not happening because there is a lot of resistance to a change that other professions have made decades ago.
The term “fireman” was officially replaced with “firefighter” in all formal Brigade contracts in the late 1980s.
More than 30 years ago, let’s get this done @sff_uk

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@CrabbySkipper @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman I do think that all school programs we are involved in to promote the industry would value the introduction of the word fishers instead of fishermen. Again, pure common sense.

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@FemaleFisherman The term “fireman” was officially replaced with “firefighter” in all formal Brigade contracts in the late 1980s.
If not now then when @sff_uk ?

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RT @ionafyfe: Nah.

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@jrclarkbf800 @Hipferd @cssbutler @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk The term “fireman” was officially replaced with “firefighter” in all formal Brigade contracts in the late 1980s.
More than 30 years ago, let’s get this done.
https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/no-such-thing-fireman-brigade-chief

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk Again, no academic research was conducted to introduce the words firefighters and police officers, just common sense.
https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/no-such-thing-fireman-brigade-chief

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@CrabbySkipper @dawnfisherman1 Firefighters are not PC, PCs are now Police Officers. This is the 21st century.

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@CrabbySkipper @isleseafoods @jrclarkbf800 I understand the tradition attached to a particular word and how much it is used in an historical and cultural context.
This is different, this is about the future of the industry and how much better it would be with more women involved.
Here’s an example: https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/no-such-thing-fireman-brigade-chief

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@jrclarkbf800 @CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk https://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog/no-such-thing-fireman-brigade-chief

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@CrabbySkipper @Hipferd @cssbutler @jrclarkbf800 @FemaleFisherman @fishsarah @sff_uk I don’t believe any independently carried out sociology research paper was needed to introduce the concept of a job is for everyone who wants to do it from firefighters to police officers.

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