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From: bmg@tekecs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard(?)
Message-ID: <3548@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 13:06:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 26 13:06:43 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Feb-84 08:51:27 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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What's wrong with the double standard?  I say you use every technique
available to you to best get your job done.

I am a female engineer, and if I can persuade someone to put in extra effort
on a project simply by my flirting with him, why shouldn't I?  Generally it
is very easy for me to tell if a coworker prefers to deal in a strictly
professonal attitude, or if mutual flirting is the best relationship.  This
is usually established within the first few hours.

There are a lot of people at work who do not take women engineers very
seriously.  But my limited experience of 8 years has shown that these are
the very people I can manipulate the easiest.  At first they tend to ignore
me, pretent I'm not around.  But when I start flirting with them - they
almost instantly have time for me.  Once I have their attention, I can start
discussing work, and the occasional flirting keeps them interested.  If I
need them to do some work for me, I usually estimate how long it will take,
and then challenge them to get it done in half the time.   Promises of my
returning to find if they did complete the work, and possibly some other
reward has almost always produced the results in half the time!  I have
NEVER provided any reward besides a big smile and a kind word.  Also, if
they repeatedly produce good work, a word to their manager always helps.  

Before I get misquoted, note I stated above that my attitude depends on the
attitude of the person I am dealing with.  90% of my coworkers are treated
as equals, but the few macho people who seem to act as if women should stay
in the home are the ones this works on.  For those people, I know I have the
edge.  Why shouldn't I take advantage of it?

			- Barbara Theus