Mostly not lies, just things way too old. That was true in the past, but measures in the 80s and 90s made up for/corrected that, and it mostly had to do with equivalency of jobs, not differential pay for the same job a guy was doing in the same company (for instance, my mother worked for a hospital, and while this was going on, it resulted in the typists being reconsidered as equal to that of "janitor" (a typically male job) resulting in a pay raise for the (all female) typists. Yeah, men never used to type at all. Radar O'Rielly was actually kind of "stunning and brave" in his day, first time I'd ever seen a guy at a typewriter. Hey, they had female nurses ...)
And don't feel bad, I certainly got fed a lot of things too old when I was young, too, but didn't realize most of it was obsolete until it was too late (mostly because it was just in the process of changing under my feet!)
Radar O'Rielly was actually kind of "stunning and brave" in his day, first time I'd ever seen a guy at a typewriter.
Hah, even as far as the 1990's I had job interviewers question my WPM. One refused to believe it until I took their test. (Same pattern every time it happened: Two interviewers, the male IT guy didn't question it, the female HR officer acted like I was lying.) The meme of "men can't type" goes back as long as typewriters do, I suspect. Archie Goodwin mentions it a couple times as I recall, and the Nero Wolfe stories were written from 1930ish-1970ish.
Zoomer here. When I was in middle school our feminist teacher told us that "Women make 70 cents for every dollar a man makes". Outright lies.
Mostly not lies, just things way too old. That was true in the past, but measures in the 80s and 90s made up for/corrected that, and it mostly had to do with equivalency of jobs, not differential pay for the same job a guy was doing in the same company (for instance, my mother worked for a hospital, and while this was going on, it resulted in the typists being reconsidered as equal to that of "janitor" (a typically male job) resulting in a pay raise for the (all female) typists. Yeah, men never used to type at all. Radar O'Rielly was actually kind of "stunning and brave" in his day, first time I'd ever seen a guy at a typewriter. Hey, they had female nurses ...)
And don't feel bad, I certainly got fed a lot of things too old when I was young, too, but didn't realize most of it was obsolete until it was too late (mostly because it was just in the process of changing under my feet!)
Hah, even as far as the 1990's I had job interviewers question my WPM. One refused to believe it until I took their test. (Same pattern every time it happened: Two interviewers, the male IT guy didn't question it, the female HR officer acted like I was lying.) The meme of "men can't type" goes back as long as typewriters do, I suspect. Archie Goodwin mentions it a couple times as I recall, and the Nero Wolfe stories were written from 1930ish-1970ish.
Do you feel like your fellow zoomers are getting red pilled and based?
Some of them, but it's hard to say. I live in a fairly small town.