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From: kmw@iheds.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Question on discrimination re the USAF
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Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 17:17:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 11 17:17:32 1983
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Steve Mauerer comments:

> You never hear feminists complaining about sexism in garbage collection
> or in sewage maintenence.
 
Steve, you aren't reading the right papers and magazines, listening to
the right news, etc., etc..
There have been numerous publicized cases of sex discrimination fights
over non-high-tech jobs.  Ones I remember reading about off hand include
coal mining, road construction (specifically the signaler's job; waving
a flag about surely does not command big bucks), loading dock jobs, and,
yes, gabage collection.  In fact, most of the stories I've read about
have been over jobs I'm glad I don't have.
 
Now it could be that the main-line press doesn't cover the fights over
non-glamour jobs and that I learned about all of these (and many more) in
feminist magazines.
 
Or, it could be that your memory of such news is filtered through your
preconceptions.
 
In either case, your comment isn't accurate.
 
-- 
K. M. Wilber
iheds!kmw or mvuxt!kw