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From: smann@ihu1g.UUCP (Sherry Mann)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Feminism and a double standard(?)
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 13:00:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 13:00:58 1984
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Barbara, and all women, have a responsibility to themselves
and their jobs before any responsibility to the educating of
chauvinists.  Women's use of what is being called "flirting"
to get the attention and cooperation of their co-workers is
a use of power which is at this time not highly valued in the
workplace, but at the same time, one of the fews types of power
women in the workplace have to wield.  It is no more reprehensible
than any other uses of power, simply not accepted at a conscious
level.  As women begin to develop other "more acceptable" types
of power, they will have less need to use their at the present time
unique form of power.

More power to women!

	Sherry Mann
	AT&T-BL Naperville, IL
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