Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihnss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihnss!warren From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Interesting TV Exercise Message-ID: <2321@ihnss.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 16:21:52 EST Article-I.D.: ihnss.2321 Posted: Wed Nov 28 16:21:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 06:14:58 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 The next time you are at the tube and those comercials start to come on, try this experiment. Count the number of commercials with male announcers and those with female announcers. In several breaks of counting, I heard only one narrated by a woman (and that was a plug for an upcoming program, not a product). This is certainly curious, as I can see no inherent reason why men or women should be more convincing selling things, and you don't even have to do any subtle analysis to see someone believes differently. The point here is not that women are being descriminated against in the job market for commercial announcers (though they may be). Picture yourself as the statistically average american sitting through 5 hours of drivel nightly listinging to those smooth, confident voices that always seem to know the best brand of cars, computers, or even frozen TV dinners. Now walk into a strange office looking for help or for someone to give an assignment to with unknown men and women in it and guess who you will head to. -- Warren Montgomery ihnss!warren IH ((312)-979) x2494