Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxf!features From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: "Kelly Girls" Message-ID: <2602@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-May-85 17:17:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2602 Posted: Thu May 16 17:17:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 05:07:15 EDT References: <496@ucsfcgl.UUCP>, <857@druxo.UUCP> <499@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 > And > look at the "Kelly Girl"-type organizations. (Note both the exclu- > sion of men and the degradation of women in the title - charming, > eh?) They're putting EEO in their ads, but I doubt men are accepted > by clients as readily as women are. > While it's true that the clients may not be as willing to accept men in those positions (except, maybe, at "Manpower" :-), it's no longer "Kelly Girl". It's "Kelly Services". Even when I worked for them, over 5 years ago, as an office temp, I was *not* a "Kelly Girl", I was a "temporary office worker". -- aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features