Two weeks ago when we were in Long Beach we casually invited an old friend to come and stay with us and darned if she didn't take us up on the offer. This morning at 10:30 am, I picked up Ida May Bell at the Jet Blue terminal of the Sacramento Metropolitan Airport. Except for the time that she will be spending with a family wedding tomorrow, we'll have her to visit and entertain until Monday evening.
Ida May tells me that she has fond memories of Sacramento and would have spent more time here herself except that a couple of the job interviews she had made it very clear they weren't looking for a woman for the job. Discrimination on the basis of sex seems so old fashioned and downright illegal that it's hard for me to wrap my brain around the idea. This was 30 or 40 years ago. And yet from conversations I've had lately, that discrimination has by far NOT disappeared. Will we ever believe that we should hire the best PERSON for the job? Is anti-discrimination taught in our schools? Should it be?
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