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- From: kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Gender Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174939.9497@adobe.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:49:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.004736.4145@cs.ucla.edu> <1993Jan25.014406.26497@adobe.com> <C1Ex0o.3Lt@apollo.hp.com>
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- In article <C1Ex0o.3Lt@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
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- > Both the New York Times and LA Times News services reported
- > over the weekend that when Bill Clinton was choosing an
- > Attorney General he limited his search to only women!
- >
- > If my employer, Hewlett Packard, had an explicit policy of
- > only opening a certain position to one sex, or systematically
- > only considering candidates of one gender for a certain job,
- > wouldn't we be hauled into court faster than you could say,
- > "Zoe Baird"? (I hope so!)
- >
- > Assuming these news reports are correct, I think it's outrageous
- > that the Clinton Administration is starting off with such a
- > sexist prologue. Not to mention the fact that the nation can
- > hardly be well-served by potentially denying half (or probably
- > more because most lawyers are men) of the otherwise qualified
- > candidates merely due to their gender.
- >
- > And what effect would this have on compliance with anti-dis-
- > crimination laws, knowing that the Justice Department itself
- > was run by someone chosen by a process that violates the very
- > statutes they are attempting to enforce?
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- >
- >---peter
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- I agree. It is one thing to *expand* the search beyond white men to
- -include- minorities, women, and handicapped people, and then to choose
- the best person for the job.
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- But, to restrict the search to fill a quota tarnishes the perceived
- qualifications of the person chosen.
-
- I also heard something about Clinton's press secretary being a woman
- and having her title, salary and responsibilities diminished, which
- has never happened before to all her male predecessors. Anyone know
- any real details? I just caught this out of the corner of my ear on
- the radio.
-
- Janice Kendall kendall@adobe.com ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
-
- "Creativity overcomes violence."
- John Bradshaw on "Homecoming"
-