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- From: ghbr@fmg.bt.co.uk (Hossein Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani)
- Newsgroups: comp.specification.z
- Subject: Re: Jacket+Tie for attending the Z Used Group AGM (was: Z User Group AG
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.173641.1599@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:36:41 GMT
- References: <"swan.cl.ca.438:18.11.92.14.10.47"@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: British Telecom
- Lines: 34
- In-Reply-To: Michael.Hinchey@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk's message of 18 Dec 92 14:09:34 GMT
-
- In article <"swan.cl.ca.438:18.11.92.14.10.47"@cl.cam.ac.uk> Michael.Hinchey@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk (Michael Hinchey) writes:
-
- > rosalind@logcam.co.uk (Rosalind Barden) writes :
-
- > |When Mike states that 'lots of "ladies" attended the dinner', this is
- > |not quite accurate.
-
- > Sorry, "lots" was perhaps an exaggeration, but I was pleased that quite
- > a number of ladies did attend.
-
- > |There were few women at the conference and all those that I spoke to were
- > |angry that women can still be treated this way.
-
- > It was not only the ladies who were angry; I thin the vast majority of
- > the gentlemen at the conference felt this way too.
-
- It may well be -- but certainly it wasn't evident. Darell Inc had a
- lot to say about almost anything in his humorous talk, but nothing
- about this common feeling of the women and "the vast majority of the
- gentlemen" present.
-
- On a similar point: Rosalind did (rightly) object to the use of the
- term "chairman" for her chairing one of the sessions. But I didn't
- see any of the men chairing raising a similar objection. The use of
- the term "chairman" is sexist no matter if the person chairing is male
- or female.
-
- -hossein
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