Re[2]: [dq-rules] Hidden Bias (was Gender Neutral Writing)

[Martin Gallo <martimer@mindspring.com>]

> EH> Regarding women, some professions are seen as women's stuff largely
> EH> because those were basically seen as the only jobs that could be
> EH> considered proper for women to do (so far as any jobs were), and those
> EH> troglodytic attitudes have taken a long time to disappear.
>
>     Let's also not forget that there were times when vital jobs were
>     done by men because women literally couldn't do them. They took
>     sheer brute strength to do, and the women took care of many of the
>     remaining duties. It wasn't sexist, it was just logic in action.

Yeah, and the times when men were not available and so women had to 
do the work - oh, wait, wrong topic.
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