Part-Time Work Quotes



Nor did they have much inclination. Organized labor was one of the most sexist institutions in society. Working class men have been major beneficiaries of the “inferiority” of women. At the low end of the hierarchy at work, the working man had only one place where he was at the top of the hierarchy: In his home as the master of his wife and children. And labor organizations evolved from conceptually thinking they were representing the workers of the world in a struggle with the managements to where they were protecting and working for their existing membership against all others and women were outsiders trying to get in and compete with the men. Some men were so macho that the did not want to face the fact that a “lowly woman” could possible do their job That diminished their skill level and self-image.