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more about #womenswork more comments → sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: Moar of this!1!! more » KikiCanuck: I wonder how much of this is specific to women in secretary/assistant roles, and how much is just reflective of the degree to which asshole higher-ups... more » la.donna.pietra: An industry contact once got annoyed with me when I wouldn't give him some confidential information in the middle of a meeting with several other indu... more » aimeeg: This might sound like a stupid question, but the only thing I really know about the job market in America is from those 'you're fired' montages in Ame... more » mommy_dearest: I once worked for someone who didn't have any boundaries. I volunteered on a suicide hotline on the weekends, and she once called the suicide hotline... more » momjeans: Ooooh, ooh pick me! I had to learn how to forge my bosses handwriting so that I could write personal message in all 100+ Christmas cards that I had t... more » curiousgeorgiana: Okay, there are far too many good (or bad) stories on here. I was an "executive legal assistant" for a major partner at a big corporate law firm. Ev... more » Ratinski: So here's my life. I'm a corporate librarian (known by another title, because "librarian" apparently makes all corporate types think of the stereotype... more » fictitious: As an intern in college I had a boss who insisted on giving me mandatory bagpipe lessons for a half-hour every day. I'm still pretty bad at the bagpi... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: Soooo wait...is it NOT normal that my boss makes me wash coffee mugs? #secretaries more » BettyCrockerPunkRocker: Our boss is an insane tyrant to all. Once, he saw that my supervisor and her children were eating lunch (Chinese take-away) in the lunch room. Our bo... more » thecameralovesyou: I'm asked to buy him christmas presents, go to his house for dinner every saturday, and talk to his wife daily. (I should mention my boss is my dad) ... more » JoaquinPhoenix's Hairstylist: I've been very lucky and have not gotten inapporiate requests. However, I do get asked to look for data/research that I am sure never existed ever! "F... more » redqueenmeg: I've never officially been a secretary but most of my jobs end up devolving into that. I've been asked to do laundry on numerous occasions. #secretaries more » morninggloria: Back when I started here, there was a difference Director and a different Director's Assistant. One of the Director's Assistant's jobs was to hide th... more » -
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Place In The Sun
Check out the short documentary A Woman's Place, about the early days of the UK women's movement: be inspired, then depressed by the fact that the "four basic demands" of the First International Women's Day march are still unanswered. [TheFWord] -
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The More Things Change...
According to a recent survey from the UK, more than a third of secretaries have been asked to do something that went "beyond the call of duty," including bathing a boss's mother, making curtains, and holding a boss's hand. [Telegraph] -
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“God Is A Woman And She Is Growing Older”
"It was the times they tore me to shreds that were the best," reminisces Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig. Spoken like a firebrand: More » -
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Do Women Bear The Burdens Of Ethical Eating?
In Salon this weekend, Siobhan Phillips described the month she and her husband spent eating "ethically." Her experiment got us thinking about whether the burdens of a sustainable diet fall disproportionately on women.
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Vatican: Washing Machine Has Done More To Liberate Women Than Pill, Work
On International Women's Day, the Vatican's newspaper observed: "Some say the pill, some say abortion rights and some the right to work outside the home. Some, however, dare to go further: the washing machine." More » -
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What Is "Women's Art"?
A review from the Financial Times of two female artists with exhibitions in London asks the question that has been floating around since women first started producing art: is art gendered? More » -
