Charlie Dawe slammed the 'sexist' bosses at the company in Warrington, Cheshire.

The 24-year-old said the interviewers didn't ask any questions about her joinery college qualification or builders' merchant's experience.

Charlie thinks she only got the interview in the first place because the firm confused her for a man after seeing her name.

She said: “It made me think the world is full of sexist pigs so what's the point in me trying to look for jobs?”

Charlie says nobody would offer her an apprenticeship during her three years at college, despite her passing all her modules, and suspects this was because of her gender too.

She said: “I'd done three years at college to be a joiner not to sit at the desk and answer the phone and emails.

“When I got to the interview they looked confused and didn't know why I was there so I explained I was there for an interview to be a joiner.”

She got a call a couple of weeks later telling her they had a receptionist job for her.

Charlie, whose interest in DIY stems from helping her dad as a child, worked at builders' merchants while at college and for a few years after leaving in 2019.

She accepted her joinery qualification would 'probably go to waste' but things changed when she became a computer technician and realised she didn't suit the role.

In October 2023, she set up The Handywoman, she's now a successful full-time joiner, working in her dream trade and helping with odd jobs.