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"The Help" moved me to tears!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 458161" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>klmno, you've got that right! People today just don't realize how different it was for young women in the work place back then! This was before there were laws forbidding sexual discrimination in the workplace, before there were laws forbidding sexual harassment, back when it was still legal for them to pay a woman half of what a man was paid for doing the same job. They justified it by claiming that HE <em>needed</em> to make more because HE had a family to support! And I didn't? And there wasn't one darned thing you could do about it either!</p><p></p><p>Back when I started my first job there was one executive, an older man with a lot of power in the company, with a reputation of being a terrible letch! His own secretary was an older no-nonsense type woman. He would send her on errands all over town, then request one of the younger ones to come to his office "to help with his projects". He had a glassed-in office with blinds he would close and then literally chase them around his office. Or he would ask them to stay late to help him out with his work. Everybody knew he did it, nothing was ever done about it. Some complained, most were afraid to for fear of losing their job, and a few quit because they had no recourse. This went on for years before times finally changed, laws were passed, and he was fired!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 458161, member: 1883"] klmno, you've got that right! People today just don't realize how different it was for young women in the work place back then! This was before there were laws forbidding sexual discrimination in the workplace, before there were laws forbidding sexual harassment, back when it was still legal for them to pay a woman half of what a man was paid for doing the same job. They justified it by claiming that HE [I]needed[/I] to make more because HE had a family to support! And I didn't? And there wasn't one darned thing you could do about it either! Back when I started my first job there was one executive, an older man with a lot of power in the company, with a reputation of being a terrible letch! His own secretary was an older no-nonsense type woman. He would send her on errands all over town, then request one of the younger ones to come to his office "to help with his projects". He had a glassed-in office with blinds he would close and then literally chase them around his office. Or he would ask them to stay late to help him out with his work. Everybody knew he did it, nothing was ever done about it. Some complained, most were afraid to for fear of losing their job, and a few quit because they had no recourse. This went on for years before times finally changed, laws were passed, and he was fired! [/QUOTE]
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