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I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. ~Marilyn Monroe
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| Sexism alive and kicking |
| 07.25.04 (10:45 am) [edit] |
[i][b]I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ~Rebecca West[/b][/i]
Just when I am feeling good about the world I have brought my girls into, something happens to throw me head first into the ugly reality of a male dominated world. This morning my love was going through some of his work stuff. He has to do some reviews for some of his employees. Since this is the first time he has to do this, he was going through the handbook for some pointers and came across a "Sample Review". He read to me the sample review, the job title on the review was "housewife". Then it listed the duties of a housewife as: cooking, cleaning, organizing, etc., the specific qualifications were: Cooking: at least two meals a day using the food pyramid as a guide to wholesome quality meals. Cleaning: including, but not limited to vacuuming, mopping, and waxing floors, washing, drying, folding and putting away laundry. The review went on and on. It was pathetic. This is in the handbook of an internationally owned manufacturing company. They employ engineers, and sales people, and assembly line workers. So I have a couple questions:
1) Where is it appropriate to have a sample review for housewives?
2) Why isn't the sample review geared towards the actual jobs of the employees of the company?
3) If they wanted to use a completely unrelated occupation for a sample, why notuse a bus driver, or a teacher, or an astronaut, or student, or any number of other jobs?
4) How have these people not been sued?
and last:
5) Am I being too sensitive to this?
Maybe, but it is just a little too sexist for me. Maybe because I have seen first hand how little respect women are given in the work place, especially one dominated by men. But, I (naively) thought that we were getting past the age of stereo-typical gender roles in society.
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posted by: Cyberpal (reply)
post date: 07.26.04 (9:56 am)
It is sexist, and I for one think the whole concept of 'housewife' is out-dated and archaic... more like home-maker now isn't it.. and further more it's not a role assigned to just women now!
I couldn't imagine my company which had an Engineering backgrd to have anything like that in it's handbook.... seems like a joke to me! :)
posted by: jennluna (reply)
post date: 07.27.04 (7:52 am)
I wish it were a joke, that's the sad part. I knew the company was completely sexist, i.e. no women managers, promoting men before women no matter what experience each had etc. I bitch about it a lot, I thought I would just make it public this time:)
posted by: Cyberpal (reply)
post date: 07.29.04 (10:03 am)
Reply to: jennluna
That's just a lawsuit waiting to happen!!
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