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...Dita got a job modeling women's clothing. "I could wear sizes 11 to 16, depending on the maker." She refused to model anything as skimpy as a bathing suit, but traveled with a salesman to display clothes in stores in Western states. When he asked her how old she really was and she confessed, she says, "the poor bastard turned 17 shades of green." He told her she was through with the job. "I told him, 'If you fire me, I'll get you for the Mann Act.' He called his wife, and she joined...
...going to Vilem B. Haan, an accessory shop that is like a pet shop for cars. There you buy a brassiere for your car, padded plastic cups that fit over the car's nose to ward off bugs and tar. "We sell them by the ton," says a salesman. And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked up an air horn for his Rolls, Bill Holden a bullhorn...
...Ross Davis are perhaps typical of the resistance to Women's Lib in Red Oak by both men and women. "When my husband married me he said, 'I'm Ross the Boss and don't ever forget it,' " says Mrs. Davis. Insurance Salesman Ross Davis adds: "I believe in Women's Liberation. I think my wife should do whatever she wants-as long as she asks my permission." Many Red Oak women agree with Doctor's Wife Jane Smith: "A woman's place is in the home taking care of her children...
...find the anti-Nixon attitudes among women," says Warren Miller, director of the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. "Even strong Democrats didn't refer to him as 'Tricky Dick' or make jokes about the used-car salesman." In 1964, women voted more heavily than men for Lyndon...
...even greater within broad occupational groupings. Women in sales work, for example, in 1970 averaged only $4,188 v. $9,790 for the typical salesman. The difference in part reflects built-in job discrimination. Retail outlets are far more likely to assign women to sell low-ticket items such as greeting cards and candy, while men are trained to sell high-priced goods like major appliances, often on commission. The pay differential narrows at higher job levels. Women professional and technical workers, including school principals, laboratory workers and computer programmers, earn on the average 67% as much...