Re: "all-girl" radio

[Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>]

Donna,

I really hope you took the mysoginistic asshole to court for
discrimination (or threatened to, at least).

--
Sven F. Weil
e-mail: sven@lily.org
World Wide Web: http://www.lily.org/~sven


On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Donna Halper wrote:
> And for those who think it changed long ago, in 1980 (!) I was working 
> somewhere that will remain nameless and found that I was being paid 
> substantially less than my male assistant.  Needless to say, I was not 
> amused, so I went to talk to the GM and expressed my surprise, whereupon he 
> said to me, "But Donna, you're making excellent money for a woman. "  The 
> sad part is, he was serious, because he then reminded me that my assistant 
> had a family to support.  I reminded him that I didn't get a discount on my 
> rent for being female nor did I get a discount on any of my bills, so why 
> should I get a discount on my salary-- but he still failed to see the 
> point...
> 
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