Can confirm. Moved to a rural area after growing up in a city. I feel like I went through a time machine. I’m in sales and an older woman literally said “it’s so nice to see a young lady so well informed. I was nervous when you came over because I had asked for a salesMAN” just yesterday. Our sales team went from about 1% women to over 50% in two years and we get comments like that a lot, especially when we answer the phone, “I asked for a salesman why am I being transferred back to a receptionist?”. Crazy how in this century woman are allowed to do more than just administrative work... if we hired a male receptionist it would probably blow people’s minds.
I'm from a kind of rural area, but it's also within commuting distance of several decent-sized cities, and this stands out to me as a backwards view in the 80s. I think you really did go through some kind of Twilight Zone/Stephen King time hole.
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u/JayPlenty24 Mar 14 '21
Can confirm. Moved to a rural area after growing up in a city. I feel like I went through a time machine. I’m in sales and an older woman literally said “it’s so nice to see a young lady so well informed. I was nervous when you came over because I had asked for a salesMAN” just yesterday. Our sales team went from about 1% women to over 50% in two years and we get comments like that a lot, especially when we answer the phone, “I asked for a salesman why am I being transferred back to a receptionist?”. Crazy how in this century woman are allowed to do more than just administrative work... if we hired a male receptionist it would probably blow people’s minds.