Re: "all-girl" radio

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 29 Oct 99,  David W. Harris wrote:

> Elsewhere in the Ancient Annals of Announcerettes (Aussie Division):
> "Australian Broadcasting Commission will discharge several married women
> at present holding down air jobs in the various States.  They'll be
> replaced by married men with families." (Variety, 17 June 1936.)  

There was a very strong notion in those days that giving a woman a job 
meant that she was taking the job from a man who had to have a job to 
support a family -- it was assumed that women were working for some other 
reason, apparently.

Back around 1953, when my father's business failed, my mother decided it 
was time to go back to work.  She had given up her medical practice after 
my sister was born, in order to be a full-time mother.  She was almost 
hired by the V.A. Hospital in Bedford.  Then they told her they were 
giving the job to a man "because he needs the job to support a family."  
It never occurred to them that my mother might have needed it for the same 
reason.  She ended up being hired by the V.A. Hospital in Albany.  She 
transferred to Bedford a few years later.



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