General Chat

Centenary of Women's Suffrage, and we're offered pink tools, pink guitars (for girls), pink 'Girly girl' binoculars.

Just last year, a woman was denied a job for refusing to agree to wear high heels.

Despite 'Pay Equality', laws, women are still paid less than men, for the same job.

Women scientists and innovators from the past are still ignored/sidelined.

Who knew this about Hedy Lamarr (from WIKI)
" At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi"

....and they offer 'women friendly' Doritos :-P :-P :-P :-P

I don't much like things that are specifically aimed at women and would never buy a pink power tool. The WI is out of the question for me as well and I will not buy Avon again because I saw it advertized as "The Womens' Company". It probably stems from my utter bolshiness in the seventies. Imagine the mental battles when I could have had cheaper insurance with Sheilas' Wheels.

Sometime about then women started to follow me in drinking pints rather than homeopathic doses of beer too.

Anyway, luckily I don't buy them anyway, but Doritos are working on women friendly tortilla chips! Smaller, in a packet that will fit in a handbag.

What next, I ask myself.