Word: charwomen
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...ducked into the women's restroom, only to meet two hulking charwomen prepared to drive me out of hiding with their mops. It looked like the whole building was on retainer for her. I stepped back into the hall, resigned to face the music...
...will do this thing. And I will run away, and what I will do next I don't know. Perhaps I will just pick up rocks. I don't know, but I will not suffer. Or I can be a charwoman somewhere. Why not? People need charwomen...
...many charwomen are buried in graveyards? How many generals? I once watched a cemetery being liquidated, and they were raking bones out. I looked at one of the big femurs and then at a little bone and said, "Man, this must have been a President and this must have been some poor bastard." The whole problem now is that you don't even know who the guy was, so why give a damn...
...tried to point out the more serious issues involved. Had Cunningham been a young man with the same credentials, editorialized the New York Times, "no newspaper would dream of publishing the tale ... In the upper ranks of the FORTUNE 500, unfortunately, women are more visible as receptionists, secretaries and charwomen than as makers of policy." Said the Boston Globe: "When a young woman makes good, her colleagues get suspicious... they make excuses: sex favoritism, affirmative action, window dressing." Pulitzer-prize-winning Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman found the Mary and Bill show to be "absolutely ripe with hostility toward uppity women...
...will boom." To take advantage of the boom, Kinney has expanded its rent-a-car fleet from 100 vehicles to nearly 6,000 in the last five years. The company also operates a building-maintenance division, now offers a package service to corporations that includes car parking, car leasing, charwomen and guards. Indeed Kinney is on the way to providing more or less cradle-to-grave service: among other enterprises, it owns seven funeral chapels, which last year buried 10% of New York City's dead...