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Subject:RE: Gray hair and first impressions From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:37:36 -0800 (PST)
--- Rebecca Stevenson <rjstevenson -at- sprynet -dot- com> wrote:
>
> How delightful. I seriously thought we'd come farther than this
> already, but apparently I've been overly optimistic.
No, I don't think you are overly optimistic...just young. <g>
We HAVE made a lot of progress on many fronts. When I was a youngster, I heard
lots of references to a person's ethnicity that I no longer hear. Do people
still make disparaging ethnic remarks? Yes, they do. But not as many people
make not as many disparaging remarks as they used to.
Same for women in the workplace. It wasn't that long ago--I'll just say 30
years--when women were generally expected to quit work when the became
pregnant. And they weren't expected back to work while the child was still in
school. Then there was the dress code for women (well, there was a dress code
for me, too, but we didn't have to look like sex goddesses). Even working in
some "progressive" places, there were still atavistic notions of what women
should wear to present a professional appearance in the workplace. And the pay
and position possibilities have expanded enormously for women in the past 30
years.
Are there still lots of problems? Yes. But make note of the conditions today
and compare them with what you'll find in 30 years--when I WON'T be in the job
market--and then I think you'll see that change is always incremental.
Revolutionary change just doesn't last or doesn't take. Or so it seems to this
old fogey. <g>
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