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Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 09:44:38 EDT
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> 
> Until quite recently (sometime in the 1970s) most men's jobs in this
> country were blue collar jobs involving dirt and risk.  My father used
> to work on high steel, and the tales he told of industrial injuries
> are pretty stomach turning.  I can see why few women would have gone into
> his line of work (although I'm sure the macho bias of my father's 
> co-workers would have prevented it anyway).  I suspect that the move 
> away from blue collar jobs in America is part of the reason that women
> are getting a fairer shake in the workplace.

Actually, that is a good point.  How many women would *want* that job
or one as a steel worker or a coal miner, etc?  For that matter how
many men?  Perhaps some thought should be directed in this direction
before we give *too* much credit to our all-benevolent government for
the progress that has been made.  And, lest we forget, progress *has*
been made.

-- 
Charlie Sorsby
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