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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2021 16:51:37 GMT
the Daily Mail famously thought Hitler was a reasonable man
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Post by michaelc on Nov 27, 2021 17:07:58 GMT
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Post by benaj on Nov 27, 2021 18:34:23 GMT
My wife trained at great expense by the Civil Service worked for around 6 My grandmother took the Civil Service entrance exams in the first year that women were allowed to take them. Out of the cohort of 650 odd she came second in maths, fourth in logic, and six in philosophy. I have a copy of a Daily Mail article of the time reporting this. The comment that stood out was " And who would have thought that women could count?". Of course, when she married my grandfather she had to resign. Because married women weren't allowed to work for the Civil Service. I'm glad to say that society has moved on a lot further than the Daily Mail. Yes, too much discrimination in the past. Well, imagine those women back in the days stay “engaged” forever, they could have carrying on working, right?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2021 14:53:11 GMT
It it depends exactly when you are talking about because the discussion above covers the 50s, 60, 70s, 80s etc. Certainly in the 70s long engagements were seen as a bit odd, very much a "beard". In the 80s you didn't have to resign from the Civil Service if you got married except in the Foreign office so stuff lightened up.
HSBC refused to allow graduates to marry or cohabitate into the 90s (sackable offence, unlike working with Mexican drug runners)
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Post by benaj on Nov 28, 2021 15:52:30 GMT
It it depends exactly when you are talking about because the discussion above covers the 50s, 60, 70s, 80s etc. Certainly in the 70s long engagements were seen as a bit odd, very much a "beard". In the 80s you didn't have to resign from the Civil Service if you got married except in the Foreign office so stuff lightened up.
HSBC refused to allow graduates to marry or cohabitate into the 90s (sackable offence, unlike working with Mexican drug runners)
🙄 Have you got any links regarding “sackable offence” in the 90s? Are you sure it’s applicable to all married/ getting married / recently married women? Well, I found a news article a woman was recently sacked for unfolding the good news first day at work. Meanwhile, here’s story about discrimination against unmarried and recently married women:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2021 17:19:01 GMT
HSBC was direct from two graduate employees who had to win permission to marry. 90s eh what a time, the freedoms you could get.
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Post by registerme on Nov 28, 2021 17:40:29 GMT
youtu.be/MB2e9R7bXCkYes, too much discrimination in the past. Well, imagine those women back in the days stay “engaged” forever, they could have carrying on working, right? Carried on working? At the expense of not having a family, or alternatively having children out of wedlock which, at the time, was still a social taboo. Not much of a choice.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2021 9:45:02 GMT
On the other side..... in the 2000s a young German woman working for me complained that her "sisters" got time off to have children and since she did not plan to have children was this fair?
sisterhood and brotherhood are only skin deep in the cut and thrust of pay negotiations
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