The girls are coming

by Peggie Carlson

"In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old college student from suburban Minneapolis started working as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, a Minnesota natural gas utility. Peggie Carlson was one of the first four women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and Sonny, another of the pioneering four, met men who were hostile, men who were helpful, and men who were simply flummoxed to find "girls" in their midst. "S'long as a guy does his job," one told her, "it don't matter ta me if he's a gal.""--BOOK JACKET. "This memoir is the sometimes humorous story of how they learned to work together - and what they all learned about stereotypes."--BOOK JACKET.