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From only 65 years ago. That's quite scary, really. If it wasn't written in such a serious manner it would actually make a good comedy sketch these days...

That's ridiculous. No wonder women didn't start entering the workforce in great numbers until the 1960s.

Funnily enough though, at my latest medical for work (as in a pre-hire medical) there were actually questions on menstruation and whether you had fertility issues etc. Extremely invasive.

"They need the work, or they wouldn�t be doing it."

Obviously!

Wow. Part funny, part depressing.

Cool find, Linux Lady.

The interesting thing about this is that some of the points actually do fit some people.

Especially the one about giving them a list of jobs to do during the day. This should actually be turned around, as women will (on the whole) find work for themselves, whereas a lot of men will, when they've finished their assigned tasks, either ask the boss what to do or just do nothing.

As a person who has worked as a Recruitment Consultant it's interesting to read them through and compare them with what is known about people.

The point about hiring young married women rather than unmarried is actually fairly factual. If a woman is under 25, then married (or those in a long-term stable relationship) are more reliable than unmarried ones. Unmarried women of that are usually are more interested in having a good time. This actually applies to men as well.

It really is interesitng if you take out the word "woman" in this and replace it with "person" - then it suddenly makes a lot of sense.

Wow...I don't even know how to say how sad that is!

"Amused"

I rememebr finding some old newspapers from 1965 (before I was born) when ripping out the carpet in an old house. The adverts were hilarious - "jobs-women" and "jobs-men". From the wording of some of the adverts, they would have fitted right in with this!

This is one of the things that baffles me when I hear people talk about 'the good old days' and 'simpler times.' Whenever I hear that, I just think 'casual racism' and about women stuck in the home going insane from the same mundane tasks every day. And to think some women actually WANT to do this now.

Wow... I am amused and offended at the same time.

I don't get this: they say to make women understand that a minute lost here and there add up to big problems (duhhhhhhhhhhhhh), but then it says to give them lots of breaks to put on fresh lipstick and wash their hands... huh.

Man, we've come a long way, baby.

I wonder if they had a guideline for hiring men and what they would have put in that?