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- From: hillyard@msc.cornell.edu
- Subject: Re: Gender Discrimination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.155932.27299@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: hillyard@tiger.msc.cornell.edu
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1k819gINN3gh@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:59:32 GMT
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- From article <1k819gINN3gh@gap.caltech.edu>, by peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri):
- > hillyard@msc.cornell.edu writes:
- >
- >>The appointment really does smack of tokenism.
- >
- > Just goes to show you can't win. If a man gets the job then it's
- > "sexism". If a woman gets the job it's "tokenism". Make up your
- > minds folks!
-
- Now Michal, thats two of my posts in a row with the context deleted and
- a cheap shot taken. I think the least you could have done was have included
- which appointment it was.
-
- In case you forgot, this was about the press secretary appointment. The
- job that has been redefined to have less responsibility than it had before.
- The obvious reason for that is Clinton didn't think she could do the job,
- but wanted to be able to say he appointed a woman to this important and
- prestigeous position. Sure does say tokenism to me.
-
- SEH
-