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To: Keltik

I worked for Westinghouse back in the day, in the “mother plant” that George himself built in East Pittsburgh. There was a group of women there that were known as the Westinghouse Old Maids because the company had a policy in the 50’s that a woman would be fired if she got married, so these women chose their jobs over marriage and stayed single.


10 posted on 11/02/2011 6:58:13 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Go Steelers (what's the baseball team called again?))
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Standard Oil of Indiana (predecessor to BP) had a similar policy. Female ancestors were ‘let go’ when they got married.


13 posted on 11/02/2011 7:04:10 PM PDT by posterchild (I'm old enough to remember when journalists bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
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