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To: GVTucker who wrote (173896)	4/1/2003 10:25:18 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi GV, RE: "I have never heard this. Did you personally listen to it" YES ! I heard it myself. Why do you think I dislike his positions more than Bush Jr's positions? The laws allowed people to talk like that back then. Sounds wrong today though doesn't it? Wish I had been born 100 years into the future. And WHY wasn't his comment spread all across the USA in every newspaper? Well, considering this was around the time the one famous business paper was known to make disparaging comments about women - I'll spare you the details because I have a meeting to run to. It's a paper I don't subscribe to (yet - they'll eventually get there). RE: "repeal a law requiring companies to allow women to take time off from work without pay. Companies will still be free to have that policy if it fits their needs." Do you think a male CEO from the Baby Boomer generation with a wife at home should make up rules for dual-working Gen X men and women in a vacuum of input from GenX? Too many companies with this particular profile do this, and that's a waste of time for a GenX to wait out that kind of stuff. One day a top performer that worked for a manager who reported into me, performance dipped for a day. I asked her how things were going. Turns out her Dad was mad at her for her choice in husband (he wasn't a high-earner as he expected she, a very smart woman, should have). Ironcially, her Dad was negatively impacting her life in his effort to "help" her, with what he said were norms. I suggested she simply call her Dad and say she's tired and could he help cook her a meal because her husband was out working that day so she couldn't ask him for help. Her Dad panicked and thought she was seriously ill, but she handled it well, said no, no, just could use some help, another hard day at work. (She winked at me.) Her Dad bought her dinner. Next day, she did it again. Another free dinner from Dad. Next day she didn't call her Dad, but instead visited with him and started talking about how helpful her husband is and how it helps her in her very demanding career. (I had suggested she say that.) Then two days later, he said to her, "I was thinking about something and realize your career is demanding, really, no different than when I was working. I can see the value you have in your husband who helps you." Her and I were really puzzled by his "demanding career" comment - I said, "what does your Dad think you do all day long? Hang out? Does your Dad really think we pay people to do nothing all day long. Play cards?" She laughed so hard. And if she were working for someone with the same values as her Dad without any training - would she or he have known how to help her navigate around that? RE: "Let the free market work. It will solve problems in a lot more efficient manner without government in the way. " No, I disagree. Why wait 100 years? And why should the smart women in a company that makes the wrong decision have to suffer as their company stumbles? No need. A good law kept in place, can retain them. They can move up. I mean, can you believe it took until Carly F got into the CEO spot before women could stop wearing these ugly grey boxy suits that were shaped like male suits? At one high-tech party, I said, having Carly up there is a great thing for women - we no longer need to dress ugly to do well! Everyone was like, "wow, you're right." Regards, Amy J