Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <27691@lanl.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 09:44:38 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.27691 Posted: Fri Jun 28 09:44:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:41:34 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA><457@unc.UUCP> <815@u1100a.UUCP> <275@kontron.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.women:6173 net.politics:9667 net.social:760 > > 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 ...!{cmcl2,ihnp4,...}!lanl!crs crs@lanl.arpa