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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: gender specific signs in NY city - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 23:41:28 EDT
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uicsl!wombat    Aug 16 13:31:00 1983

This summer around the U. of Ill. has been tree pruning time. Trees
being worked are surrounded by large signs saying "MEN WORKING IN
TREES."  Unfortunately, these signs appear to be correct, since I
have seen quite a few men up in the trees, but the only women around
were on the ground picking up sticks/branches and putting them in
the back of the truck. I don't know whether or not women were
offered the option of going up in the trees, but if they weren't
they should have been. I would imagine such hazardous work brings
in bonus pay and such, and women have often been excluded from
this sort of dangerous, higher-paying job.

Whoever wrote the note on stress cycles in men and women, do you
know if any research on this has been done?
						Wombat
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