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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women vs. women in the workplace
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 17:14:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 17:14:06 1985
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Keywords: workplace
Summary: Change is incomfortable, even for women

I had a recent experience that underscores this point:

I had to fly to USENIX from Washington, DC (where I was on business),
and the only flight at a good time was a two-hop route on Continental.
On the first leg of this flight (Dulles to Denver) the copilot on my
DC-9/Super-80 was a woman.  As I was leaving the plane, the pilot
flung open the cockpit door; a flight attendant--a woman in her early
50's, I'd guess--commented on how easily he had opened the door:
``Wow, with one hand!  It's nice to know there's at least *one* MAN
in the cockpit!''
A man standing behind her cried out ``Chauvinist!''  As near as I can
tell, the copilot at least pretended to ignore the attendant's comment.

On the second leg of my trip, my flight attendant was a football player
who had just tried out for the Dallas Cowboys.  He was very good, and
clearly felt unthreatened by having what was until recently a ``woman's
job''.

		-Ed Hall
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