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Page 142
... woman operator from the male maintenance mechanic or systems technologist is so obvious it is difficult to question . How could a woman aspire to cross it ? Yet some women do wonder . A young woman spreader in Newstyle Ltd. said , with ...
... woman operator from the male maintenance mechanic or systems technologist is so obvious it is difficult to question . How could a woman aspire to cross it ? Yet some women do wonder . A young woman spreader in Newstyle Ltd. said , with ...
Page 176
... woman there , it does cramp your style and spoil the conviviality . The obscenity creates a boundary across which women will fear to step . A maintenance technician told me , ' If someone [ i.e. some woman ] came into this set - up they ...
... woman there , it does cramp your style and spoil the conviviality . The obscenity creates a boundary across which women will fear to step . A maintenance technician told me , ' If someone [ i.e. some woman ] came into this set - up they ...
Page 208
... woman . You can't do everything a man can do . But women are more imaginative than men . You have got to have this compromise whereby you are still a woman but they accept you as a woman and for your brain . ' It is perhaps worth noting ...
... woman . You can't do everything a man can do . But women are more imaginative than men . You have got to have this compromise whereby you are still a woman but they accept you as a woman and for your brain . ' It is perhaps worth noting ...
Contents
Technology production and power | 15 |
new technology and sexual divisions | 44 |
new technology in mail | 78 |
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