Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!tims 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 Article-I.D.: shark.574 Posted: Wed Feb 29 13:13:24 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 10:21:43 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 18 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)