History of Feminism

I could have made twice as much money as a secretary. But I liked the creativity and the beauty of the logic. There were a few guys in the business, never considered a great job and most of them were in management without a n understanding of the work. But then they started offering draft deferments and guys started working and the salaries started raising. I had to keep my ear to the ground about salaried - and my first job really was unhappy when a new employee told us how much they were making and it was more than those of us who had been there for a year, even with our merit raises. They did not like strikes, heck they still owned segregated housing and they would not hire blacks as anyone except the lowest clerks and janitorial, I had a friend who was passing.

As more men got into the job, it paid better, but still you had to fight for raises to stay near a guy with half your experience, so I went the consultant path where you could just set your fee, and I worked through an agency that did not just negotiate a rate and then give you an amount, (hint, guys got a higher percentage of the rate) but this agency got a fixed percentage of the rate you negotiated, so they always informed us what everyone was getting in that company so we could get the most out of it.

Of course, I did have one young woman innocently tell me when I was leaving , that she did not want to hire me because it would be like giving orders to her mother, although she did not have a problem with any of the older guys. But she said I was easy to work with, didn't need supervision, etc... So much so they fired most of the guys they hired with me and had me hire all the other consultants. I hired mostly women, ha ha .