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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Sexual Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.015331.28727@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <C1IpA6.H47@cs.psu.edu> <1993Jan27.195411.28410@netcom.com> <C1J9G5.8Js@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:53:31 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <C1J9G5.8Js@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >><C1IpA6.H47@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>>That's like saying that women had no desire to be company president
- >>>in the 1950's because they didn't apply. Perhaps there were a few
- >>>exceptions: those cases where an exceptionally talented woman pushed
- >>>her way through. Only the truly exceptional women would even pursue
- >>>it; the others wouldn't waste the time, effort, and money, because
- >>>the sexism was a pure and clear obstacle.
- >>>
- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
- >>>If 70% of women who applied for company president were accepted
- >>>under such circumstances, I, for one, would not conclude that women
- >>>were treated equally or better than men.
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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- >>Why is it that if "70% of women who applied for company president were
- >>accepted" you would not expect sexist hiring pactices?
- >>
- >>[,,,___,,,]
- >
- >I don't understand your question -- where did I say anything like that?
-
- See above. It was not an obscure, hidden comment. I am a bit confused by
- your response. I was merely pointing out the mismeasure of sexism. Seventy
- percent male is considered an obvious, unambiguous sign of sexist hiring
- practices. But for some unfathomable reason (to me anyway) seventy percent
- female is not. I am just wondering if anyone can tell me why this is so.
-
- >Maybe it's the [,,,___,,,] symbol? What does it mean?
-
- Deleted text. I started out with the standard [...], decided that was a bit
- boring, so I chenged it to [...---...] (SOS in morose code). That got a bit
- boring after a time, so I was working on varaitions on the theme. Sorry for
- any confusion, but I thought that in context it wouldnot be terribly
- unclear.
-
- >Don
- >--
- >beaver@cs.psu.edu Opinions from the PC-challenged
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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