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The Instagram account Girlboss, which celebrates women in the workforce, shared a snippet of Milanka's video with its 1.7 million followers. There, it garnered thousands of comments.

\"I'm a foreman in concrete work..I felt this!\" one woman wrote.

\"I walked into a project, and a subcontractor yelled out to the entire crew 'somebody’s girlfriend is here,'\" said another.

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Others said they didn’t share the same experiences and were treated equally in what one would consider male-dominated fields.

\"I used to be a supervisor for a landscaping crew, and they were actually the nicest and the least sexist men I've worked with,\" a commenter wrote.

Milanka agreed that not all of her run-ins or comments heard from male workers were frustrating.

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\"A lot of people I work with have a lot of respect for me and my female coworkers,\" she said.

Milanka said the best part of her video going viral is the flood of direct messages from young women asking how they can go after a career in geology.

\"It hasn't discouraged women, but otherwise inspired them,\" she added.

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