17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
8:55 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, ajp166 wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Russ Blakeman
wrote:
Hand made, usually by women working under low
power microscopes.
And they had women doing the work because they apparently are
better
at working with their hands (i.e. needlework). Not to be sexist or rude but I think that women have a
better tolerance for
boring tedious work while sitting on their butts for long periods of time.
And keeping in mind that we are talking about IBM and the like, they would
hire women for it because they could get away with paying them less.