Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field in which women predominate the occasional man will often hold the jobs at the highest levels. The 9.5 per cent of all beauticians who are males are usually titled "hairstylists" and are employed in the most elegant salons. Almost 10 per cent of all jobs in the waiter-waitress category are filled by males, but the men can be found at Sardi's or Locke-Ober's, not at Howard Johnson's or the diner down the road...
...Pink Collar Workers, Howe has tried to fill this gap. While statistics set the stage for her argument, the bulk of the book is a series of interviews with women in five overwhelmingly female lines of work--beautician, sales workers, waitress, office worker and homemaker. In all but one case, Howe got her information by spending time in one establishment which served as a paradigm for the industry; in the one exception, she actually worked as a sales clerk in "Ladies' Coats." She interweaves descriptions of specific working conditions and discussions of problems faced nationwide by women in each line...
...role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid such problems in her next movie, The Great Day. She is cast...
...Indians had the right idea," says Brenda, a cocktail waitress in Orem. "When a rapist was caught, he got tied down and everyone was invited to throw stones. You better believe the other young bucks got the right idea. Poor Gary-I love him even though he is a murderer. Gary says the only way to atone for the dead is to give your own life. He's prepared...
...many cases, however, the novelty of spending eventually wears off. Some winners, like Irene Balodimas, 59, a former Chicago waitress, get so bored they even want to work again. Whatever else they do, a few find themselves back at the lottery window bucking the cosmic odds against their winning a second million-or, rather, another taxable $50,000 a year...