Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site u1100a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!abnji!u1100a!sdo From: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <815@u1100a.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 14:08:22 EDT Article-I.D.: u1100a.815 Posted: Fri Jun 21 14:08:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 03:06:40 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA> <457@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan) Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.women:6005 net.politics:9522 net.social:714 >women more often choose occupations which center around helping other people >and cooperating with them (teacher, nurse, secretary, social worker). >The direct gratitude from the helpee satisfies some of the woman's social >needs. > >Men more often find themselves in occupations which either isolate them >from other people, or pits them in anxiety-provoking competition. >Some of these higher paying "men's jobs" are dirty and dangerous as well. > What a waste my life has been. My job involves facing irate users carrying listings, the risk of dropping a terminal on my foot, and the filthy job of running cables under the floor. All this time I could have been cleanly and painlessly satisfying my need to help others by teaching poor children carrying knives, or changing people's bedpans, or counselling beaten families in ghettos who are losing their benefits. But forget being a secretary - I would be risking coffee pot burns and pencil stabs. And there's no anxiety-provoking competition because we'd all be following the same written rules and not be allowed to think on our own as I'm occasionally forced to do on my job. Thank you for showing me the light. -- Scott Orshan Bell Communications Research 201-981-3064 {ihnp4,allegra,bellcore,pyuxww}!u1100a!sdo