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From: resnik@h-sc1.UUCP (philip resnik)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Kelly Girls"
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 12:00:34 EDT
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> > 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".
> -- 

I think one point we have to consider here, however, is that a name
change does not necessarily constitute an attitude change, nor
does it even ensure that people in general will use the new name!
My case in point is this:  I have a female friend who worked last
summer as a "Kelly Girl", *despite* the fact that the
name of the organization is now "Kelly Services".  She and
everybody else referred to "Kelly Girls" without a second thought.
(my original phrase, before I deemed it potentially flameable, was
"without batting an eyelash"... :-))

Linguistic intertia lives on...
				--philip