WomanSage member Dee Muir shared the following 1943 guide to hiring women.
It takes you back.
It makes you remember what employers thought of your mom.
Now, be honest, isn’t the workplace a much better place for women today?
I’ll be glad to hear your answers.
But first read this:
March 6th, 2008 - 10:34 pm
Great read!
It is so incredible that this is not that long ago!
My mother never worked, but I sure understand the meaning of the word “belittle”.
My daughters would be appalled and insulted to read this and my son would probably have no clue this ever happened. We’ve come a long way! Thanks to all the women before us that endured this type of classification.
The only question I have is, does the person that wrote this paper ever got to realize that because of those women that supposedly “needed to work” and broke ice for the rest of us; we now enjoy full personal realization and financial independence in addition to nurturing motherhood and friendships. We make great wifes to great husbands or the deal is out.
Yes, ladies, we can have it all!!! Including lipstick time.
March 7th, 2008 - 10:48 am
The part that says “how to use them to the best advantage”, is really troublesome. Women are not and never have been a thing to use. Unfortunately for some that was their belief and quite possibly still is the case today. All the famous quotes about women were written by men with some of them not so complimentary. However, I love what George Bernard Shaw wrote…”Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species”. I rest my case.