In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Emily Cartier wrote:
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>This doesn't make any sense. One of my jobs is work in a small business.
>I answer the phone, do catalog design, and manage the website. I have
Speaking of websites, I used to be "webmaster" for an ISP. I asked my
boss permission to set up aliases for either "webadmin" or "webmistress"
and use them, but was told that I wasn't to do it. So I ended up
getting an awful lot of webmaster mail addressed "dear sir".
Now I run my own company and answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with
webmaster set up as an alias to point to webmistress, just in case
someone makes assumptions...) I've also come to use the term "website
administrator" in written and spoken communications when describing what
other people might call a "webmaster".
>Now, I was raised in a household with a fairly high income. I tend
>(unlike some women raised in lower income households) to see a male
>ignoring my expertise as a sexism/ignorance/religious belief issue.
>However it's not really income that determines those sorts of
>additudes... it's culture and upbringing.
I'd actually point towards reading lots as the determining factor.
The encouragement of intellectualism and access to a decent library
(public or school library, whatever) seems to make people think for
themselves about this kind of thing. There's a correlation between
income and good schooling, hence good libraries and better reading
patterns, so I guess there is a tendency for lower-income women to be
less feminist in their attitudes.
But I'm probably opening myself up for a flaming here...
K.
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