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From: tims@shark.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Feminism and the double standard.
Message-ID: <574@shark.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 13:13:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 13:13:24 1984
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This article is in response to the original article on this topic,
which told of a woman using flirting with a male customer of her
company in order to gain the business of the man's corporation.

Approval and disapproval of this has been somewhat mixed, just let
me bring out the following.  If it is a valid practice for women
to gain effectiveness in their jobs by using (mild) sexual means,
then isn't it a valid practice for a company to favor the hiring
of attractive women over unattractive women, knowing that the
attractive women will have a valid advantage in dealing with
male customers?

If you answer "no" to the above if-then question, you are accepting
that women are justified in using a valid technique, but companies
should not be allowed to consider it in employment, again, a
double standard.

Responses? (please)