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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
Message-ID: <669@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 18:40:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 18:40:53 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <773@cadovax.UUCP> bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) writes:
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>Has anyone really worked with a woman whose job performance suffered so
>noticeably when she was about to have her period?  Somehow, I doubt it.

Off hand I can think of one instance in my experience.  This was when I was
working  part  time  with a trapeze act (I was their publicity photographer
and sometimes truck driver and roustabout).  One of the women  in  the  act
did have a problem with her period.  It would throw her performance off and
she would be extremely grouchy and hard to get along with.

I note that this was  an  unusual  situation.  The  woman  involved  was  a
professional  athlete  and  unusually  attuned to the workings of her body.
Her job made her physical condition a  critical  factor  for  her.  On  the
other  hand, none of the other women in the troupe seemed to be as strongly
affected (it was an all-female act).

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