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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Interesting TV Exercise
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 16:21:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 16:21:52 1984
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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
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