The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation
Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work force
during World War II.

Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/hiringwomen.asp

This one's true!

Suzanne

"Suz" wrote in message...
The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation
Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work force
during World War II.

The best one is number 5

5) In breaking in women who haven't previously done outside work, stress at
the outset the importance of time!

That's a classic!!!!!!!


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In message , Suz
writes
The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation
Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work force
during World War II.

Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/hiringwomen.asp

This one's true!

And when they go wrong, there's this ...

http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...re_womanView?l
angId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001


--
geoff

raden wrote:


http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...re_womanView?l
angId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001

There was a story going round when Haynes brought out their Man manual
that the Woman manual was never going to appear because they had spent
years on research and still couldn't fathom them out. :-)




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Subject: Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees


Suz wrote:
The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation
Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work
force during World War II.

Seems quite reasonable and accurate for attitudes at the time, [snip]


"they lack initiative in finding work themselves"
"husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are likely
to be more even-tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters"
"a surprising number of women turned down for nervous disorders."
"Women are inclined to be nervous and they're happier with change"
"make some allowances for feminine psychology"
"pick young married women"
"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

"Suz" wrote in message
...
Subject: Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees


Suz wrote:
The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation
Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work
force during World War II.

Seems quite reasonable and accurate for attitudes at the time, [snip]


"they lack initiative in finding work themselves"
"husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are likely
to be more even-tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters"
"a surprising number of women turned down for nervous disorders."
"Women are inclined to be nervous and they're happier with change"
"make some allowances for feminine psychology"
"pick young married women"
"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

Thinking back over the many years during which I have employed women, the
most efficient ones do seem generally to have been 'just a little bit on the
heavy side' and the most difficult ones have generally been the older ones.
However, the sample size is not statistically significant, so no firm
conclusions can be drawn from those observations.

Colin Bignell

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Suz" saying
something like:

Seems quite reasonable and accurate for attitudes at the time, [snip]


"they lack initiative in finding work themselves"
"husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are likely
to be more even-tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters"
"a surprising number of women turned down for nervous disorders."
"Women are inclined to be nervous and they're happier with change"
"make some allowances for feminine psychology"
"pick young married women"
"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

Seems perfectly fine to me.
--
Dave
GS850x2 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

In article ,
says...

"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

Seems perfectly fine to me.

Quite right! I'm cantankerous and fussy. Maybe thats why I'm
unemployable and unmarried too

Anna

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"Anna Kettle" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

Seems perfectly fine to me.

Quite right! I'm cantankerous and fussy. Maybe thats why I'm
unemployable and unmarried too


I'll never be fussy, but I can't wait to be cantankerous. I'm going to have
a mid-life crisis when I hit 40. Going to do the whole blonde dye, mini
skirt, sad thing and then ding on my 41st birthday I'm going to turn into an
old trout. Can't wait to get a zimmer/ stick/ ye olde shopping trolley and
takes the ankles of some lad shouting "Out of my way, young man".

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:43:41 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Suz" saying
something like:

Seems quite reasonable and accurate for attitudes at the time, [snip]


"they lack initiative in finding work themselves"
"husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are likely
to be more even-tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters"
"a surprising number of women turned down for nervous disorders."
"Women are inclined to be nervous and they're happier with change"
"make some allowances for feminine psychology"
"pick young married women"
"older women ... ... are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy"

Reasonable?

Seems perfectly fine to me.

My Granddad was a sheet metal basher, during WWII in B'ham.
His job was to organize teams of women to build aircraft.
He did sort them into who would be best at various types of work.
Chunky ones got to use an air hammers and riveters and other heavier
tasks. Petite ones were selected to crawl into tiny inspection voids to
install control wires and pulleys. Ones with 'refined' hands were set to
installing instruments.


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