I agree. Lets let the people bring just the girls to work. Now it seems we
can add this day to the list of things that are racially motivated, sexually
harassing, age discriminatory, etc. etc.!! You can't win these days so
don't even try!!
Tom Tatarian
Tax Librarian
Skadden Arps
New York, NY
At 10:21 AM 4/19/96 -0500, Mary Lippold wrote:
>I think we need to remember the original purpose of "Take Our Daughters
>to Work Day. Up to about the age of 10, girls have just as high
>career aspirations and range of interests as boys. They are as equally
>interested in math and science as boys and actually do better in school
>than boys. Between the ages of 11-15 there is an alarming drop in
>girls' self esteem and this is when we find girls dropping out of the
>harder academic courses and lowering their expectations.
>
>The American Association of University Women has also found that our
>daughters are still being reated differently than our sons in our
>education system. See the report from the AAUW on how our education
>system is shorchanging our daughters. (Boys are called on in class more
>often than girls. Girls tend to be asked fact questions such as what
>date something happened, while boys tend to be asked analysis type
>questions. Boys are asked more follow up questions. Girls' work is praised
>for its neatness, while boys' work is praised for its content. The list
>goes on.)
>
>"Take Our Daughters to Work Day" was begun to show our girls that we care
>and believe in them as individuals and value their future. For one day a
>year let us focus our attention on our daughters. For hundreds of years
>sons were valued more highly than daughters and in many places today that
>is still true. Is one day a year too much to ask?
>
>PS In our own profession, I would like to see research about the career
>paths of those who hold top positions. Is there a difference in how
>fast men move up than women? Do men's salaries increase faster than
>womens? While men are not well represented at the lower or entry levels,
>they appear to be well represented at the top.
>
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>Mary Lippold
>Serials / Reference Librarian Phone: 713-646-1723
>South Texas College of Law Library Fax: 713-659-2217
>Houston, TX 77002-7000 Email: mlippold@stcl.edu
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>On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Fay Henexson wrote:
>
>> This discussion thread sure brings back memories. When I first pondered
>> entering this profession (librarianship that is) I started doing some
>> reading and found out the statistics at that time - the profession as a
>> whole 80% female - top administrative jobs in the profession 80% male. Hmmm.
>>
>> At the very least, I hope that the disparity at the top has changed. I
>> haven't checked the statistics lately.
>>
>> And speaking of engineering I remember that in graduate school some of
>> our classes were held in an engineering building at U of Arizona, and I
>> never drank coffee right before class because of the restrooms: there
>> were men's restrooms on every floor, but women's restrooms were only on
>> every OTHER floor - too far away if you needed to make a quick visit!.
>>
>>
>> M.F.Henexson
>> Calif. Dept. of Justice Library
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, michael spindler wrote:
>>
>> > I gotta agree, and would add that the ratio across the board in the
>> > Seattle area is more like 90-95 percent women, based upon my own
>> > unscientific observations. Like Nursing, Librarianship is still not
>> > viewed as a very masculine or macho profession by the general public, as
>> > Engineering is still not viewed as a very femminne profession. Also, most
>> > elementary school teachers and school media librarians are still
>> > predominately women. The gender and lifestyle assumptions still persist,
>> > even among some librarians who should know better. I would not be
>> > surprised if there were more male nurses than librarians. Interesting how
>> > it turned around since good old Dewey's time, when I understand nearly ALL
>> > librarians, although confined primarily to academia, were men. My two
cents.
>> >
>> > Michael Spindler Infopros Research & Consulting
>> > mspin@halcyon.com Seattle, WA 206-224-7543
>> > www.halcyon.com/mspin/
>> >
>> > On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 RISTLAW@ids.net wrote:
>> > > Right on, nscordino. There is no rational justification for excluding
>> > > boys from a career day at your place of employment. The AALL salary
>> > > survey revealed that 68.8% of the academic law librarians, 74.7% of the
>> > > private firm/corporation librarians, and 80.5% of the state, court and
>> > > county law librarians are of the female gender.
>> > > Women are well represented at all levels of our profession, including
high
>> > > percentages of directors. Do we want to give boys the impression that
>> > > this is woman's work. It's time to treat boys and girls equally. Bring
>> > > both your sons and daughters to work and expose them to our dynamic
>> > > profession
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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