Claude, a typist, asks questions with a colleague about the evolution of a typist in his company and in a small company. She works in a pool and does not think for the moment to do another job than typing. Other colleagues think that there is no possible evolution in the company.
Claude is 19 years old and works as a typist in a typing pool. She retraces her training and has colleagues who are not quite friends. She doesn’t do an interesting job and bangs all day. She fills out prints. She works from 7 hours half to 16 hours.
A child evokes the atmosphere at home, a cheerful life, where you have fun, where he plays with his father and where stories are told. Mom doesn’t play much because she prefers to work; When she is outside the home, she does everything you can do, like hanging up clothes, washing dishes, setting the table. another child adds that he does not see his mother very much.
A man is convinced that it is better for a woman to stay at home. Another confirms this fact by stating that the woman staying at home "makes life more pleasant to her husband". He adds: "In the evening life at home family life is pleasant because everything is ready and the day ends more calmly."
As soon as they cross the threshold of the company in the evening, the women hasten to return home. Then begins a second day for them. A man understands that they have work when they come home at noon to feed their children. We’re following a woman home. Testimony from children about their mother’s schedule; They get up early and have tired faces.
In 1983, one in six executives was a woman. If the diplomas are equivalent to those of men the salaries do not follow. The salaries of women executives are 40% lower than those of their male colleagues. An executive woman looking for work evokes discrimination in hiring which for her is obvious. It illustrates this dicrimination by words spoken by a man during a job interview; a very competent, highly organized woman becomes a danger to men in the company.
Like "scolding a woman at work"? At this question asked by the journalist, a team leader with a certain smile says "reprimand the women rather curtly and vexing the person". He deduces that women take the blow less well than a man and we find them in tears because we made them a reflection. Another talks about psychology and admits trying to understand the reasons for women’s anger. When asked by the journalist about the coquetry used by women in hierarchical relations, one of the factory’s team leaders points to the fact that "women try to play on this register but one should not play their game; a woman is a woman, whether she is a worker or not".
What if a woman commanded the men and had the function of being a team leader in a factory. How would men react? Two male team leaders answer this question. While two of them would be willing to live it, the third thinks that "male self-esteem would be hurt".