irreticent@lemmy.zip to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHow was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOWlemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1454arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareMrsDoyle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80·1 month 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-up15·1 month agoThe cartoon should have put “man” in bold.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoThat probably has a lot to do with it. Doubling the workforce let’s employers be way pickier.
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·29 days 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.