irreticent@lemmy.zip to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHow was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOWlemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down113file-text
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minus-squareMrsDoylelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·2 months agoMy personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoThe cartoon should have put “man” in bold.
minus-squareagamemnonymouslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoThat probably has a lot to do with it. Doubling the workforce let’s employers be way pickier.
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agothat is why we should have bee fighting for a lower work week. by the end of the eighties the work week should have been no higher than 30 hours a week.
My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.
The cartoon should have put “man” in bold.
That probably has a lot to do with it. Doubling the workforce let’s employers be way pickier.
that is why we should have bee fighting for a lower work week. by the end of the eighties the work week should have been no higher than 30 hours a week.