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From: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Professional women are *not* safe from discrimination
Message-ID: <412@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 17:52:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttidcb.412
Posted: Tue Jul 16 17:52:27 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 06:34:17 EDT
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Reply-To: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
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Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <2960@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) writes:
>Just a note to those of you who thought that discrimination against women
>in professional positions didn't exist...
>
>I just received a letter from a friend of mine who *used* to work for a
>petroleum company that was recently "engulfed" by another petroleum
>company.  Used to, because, the company was forced to lay-off a portion of
>its R & D, and did so by laying off 82% of all the women professionals

For those of us who believe in opposing this type of behavior through
the power of the purse, how about explicitly stating the name
of this petroleum company?

--Iconoclast