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From: gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Sexism (against women)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:46:32 GMT
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mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes:
| |> | How much sexism (against women) do people perceive there to be
| |> | nowadays?  What form does it take?  What kinds of people perpetrate
| |> | it?

gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
| |> Almost all of those who populate the U.S. Senate, the House of
| |> Representatives, [and most high offices] are male -- and you
| |> gotta ask these questions?

mccoy@casbah.acns.nwu.EDU (Jim Mccoy) writes:
| I think that your analysis here is slightly flawed.
|
| Please remember that no one (male or female) just leaves business
| school and starts work as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.  No one
| starts out at the top.  Getting there takes years, even decades of
| hard work.  ...[etc.]....

One of the things we're often told is that there was sexism once, but
now it's gone away, and there is no need for any offsetting mechanism
(affirmative action, for example) because there is no discrimination
to offset.  The conversation above, however, reminds us that history
counts.  Affirmative action may not be the best way of dealing with
it, but neither is handwaving.  As long as there's a Fortune 500, and
498 or so of its CEOs are male, something called "sexism" is in
effect.
--
Gordon Fitch