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...women, while its higher-paid skilled jobs have nearly all been held by men. The situation has long outraged feminists, and last January they won what seemed a significant victory: their complaint to the Government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission forced American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to sign a consent decree under which it agreed to throw open every job in the system to both sexes.* Nine months later, that decree is having a topsy-turvy effect; it is producing many more male operators than female linemen or telephone installers...
Whatever the reason, the way that the consent decree has worked so far suggests that it may eventually have a wholly unintended effect. If the Bell System continues to offer men's jobs to women who will not take them, and to offer women's jobs to men who snap them up, employment of women throughout the system may go down...
...said it is likely that Parliament would consent to any changes in the statute recommended by the trustees...
Novels like The President's Plane is Missing or Advise and Consent don't have much going for them except their surface narrative. If Facing the Lions is that kind of book you can't put down, it's also the kind of book you rapidly forget if you do put it down...
...more important, better paying jobs. Cement, steel, electricity and telephones were also nationalized, along with both foreign and domestic banks. Labor unions were given control of new plants that went up in belts around Santiago, close by tidy neighbors of the middle class. With the government's tacit consent, peasants seized huge estates owned by absentee landlords, and in their zeal even took land from small farmers...