At a handful of small carpentry schools around the country, women are teaching other women skills that many of us missed out on, somehow.
“I saw a big desire in women to claim what had been largely taken away from them,” said Natalie Bogwalker, 43, the founder of Wild Abundance. Bogwalker teaches tiny-house building and carpentry and said that about 2,000 students, ranging in age from 14 to 77, have taken classes at Wild Abundance in the past decade.
“I’ve heard some misperceptions about how women don’t like to get dirty. Well, that’s entirely imposed upon us from the outside,” said Klemperer-Johnson. “The problem is that all of us have internalized these stereotypes — women just as much as men — and we all have to work to undo it.”A key obstacle to claiming power in construction trades like carpentry is knowing the language. Words like gussets, joists, speed square and worm drive saw can feel unfamiliar.
The other women in my class at Hammerstone talk about this, too — having fathers or spouses who wouldn’t teach them or who would just do it for them, or feeling frustrated when men overexplain small details.“It just feels a lot safer to learn from a woman,” said Alexandra Haynes, 30, a web developer who took the tiny-house course with me at Hammerstone and who hopes to build her own cottage in the woods someday.
It occurred to me that this was the opposite of “mansplaining.” Rather than listening to a expert lecture us about how to use a tool — or how not to use it — we were being encouraged to figure things out ourselves. Another teacher at Hammerstone, Christina Alario, 36, said this is deliberate. Over a week, we build the frame for a tiny house that stands on a trailer. The client is a woman who plans to live in it and who has paid for the material costs, while we students pay Hammerstone for the instruction, then provide the labor while we learn.
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