abhay@bunker.UUCP (Abhay K. Jain) (08/15/83)
Recently I drove to NY city and noticed the following sign on the road surface about 100 feet before the toll booths on the bridges.(These signs are recent). LANE MANNED This is apparently to warn people who drive looking down on the tar surface, that the lane is attended by a 'man'. To my surprise I found the toll collector to be a female. I am no supporter of era but was sure offended by these chauvinistic signs.
wombat@uicsl.UUCP (08/17/83)
#R:bunker:-27000:uicsl:16400011:000:791 uicsl!wombat Aug 16 13:31:00 1983 This summer around the U. of Ill. has been tree pruning time. Trees being worked are surrounded by large signs saying "MEN WORKING IN TREES." Unfortunately, these signs appear to be correct, since I have seen quite a few men up in the trees, but the only women around were on the ground picking up sticks/branches and putting them in the back of the truck. I don't know whether or not women were offered the option of going up in the trees, but if they weren't they should have been. I would imagine such hazardous work brings in bonus pay and such, and women have often been excluded from this sort of dangerous, higher-paying job. Whoever wrote the note on stress cycles in men and women, do you know if any research on this has been done? Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat