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Subject:Re: Sex discrimination (was Who are we?) From:Donald Ray <dray -at- CELCORE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 22 May 1997 08:52:26 -0500
Having been in the workplace for 30+ years, I have yet to find a
Technical Publications department that discriminated against employees
based on gender, race, national origin, religion, etc. The reason for
my luck may be due to the extremely technical nature of my industry. In
the telecommunications industry there is always a severe shortage of
"good" technical writers maybe that's why there is no discrimination.
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>From: Julie F. Hesselgesser[SMTP:jhesselgesser -at- OXMOL -dot- COM]
>Sent: Thursday, May 22, 1997 8:36 AM
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>Subject: Re: Sex discrimination (was Who are we?)
>
>I think John is lucky to be in an equal enviroment. However, this is not the
>situation everywhere. I've recently come from a job where, when I started,
>there were 3 male supervisors with 8 female writers under them. When
>questions were raised about the lack of female managers in the department,
>some scrambling went on pretty quickly (within 1 year) to promote some women
>to "team leaders." However, this group still exists under the leadership of
>a male who seems to have a problem hiring males. The joke in the group is
>that the females are all part of his "harem." Does this ring bells for
>anyone else?
>
>Julie
>All views are expressly mine own!
>
>>John Posada wrote:
>>
>>>In my group, there are 4 men, 2 women, and my boss is a woman.
>>>The group I do the work for has 3 women and 3 men.
>>
>>>Seems pretty 50/50 to me.
>>
>>Is in my situation as well. Two male colleagues, one female
>>colleague, one female boss.
>>
>>>I find it a little hard to believe that a professional dominated
>>>almost three-quarters by females could have a pattern of discrimination
>>>against them.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>John
>>
>>john_trollope -at- watsonwyatt -dot- co -dot- uk (work)
>>john -dot- trollope -at- easynet -dot- co -dot- uk (home)
>>
>>http://easyneb.easynet.co.uk/~john.trollope/scripts/
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