It wasn’t just a single event.
Women entered the workforce in a wave in the ‘70s. It was a corporate mantra: We have to hire more women.
Women were not necessarily trained or proficient in the skills needed in the business — and government positions — that they were being shoehorned into.
Hence, “Human Resources” and other similar departments were created to be staffed by the wave of new hires.
HR departments quickly focused on what those men who had long been in the business or government worlds HAD to do to make women feel more welcome in this new environment.
Add 40 years. Women now rule the corporate and government roosts to the point where even a questionable glance from a man is actionable.
Tyranny, pretty much.
And yet there is so much more going on - the truly powerful continue to prey; it takes 40 years for accusations to come out... Whatever we are seeing now, it isn’t the truth.
Thanks for that JC. I do believe there was something else about that time also that triggered a movement already in progress at MIT, but THAT is what I can’t remember, and can’t find information on.
My point being of course that government has been involved in our personal business now since the ‘70’s, and yet we have this explosion of disgusting, harmful accusations indicating a failure in the system. I do believe most of us here at FR recognize exactly what the problem is, but again I’d like to remember what it was that triggered the government involvement that has obviously failed.
What year did the Personnel Department become the Human Resources Department?
My recollection is, it was sometime in the early eighties or late seventies.
Was there a precipitating event? E.g., a scandal, a court decision, or legislation.