{"id":24786,"date":"2010-06-23T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24786"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:10:53","slug":"ibm-decides-to-let-women-work-after-marriage-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/23\/ibm-decides-to-let-women-work-after-marriage-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Decides to Let Women Work after Marriage (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Sobel sent in this IBM memo from 1951 that announces a “temporary modification” of corporate policy to allow married women to work at the company:<\/p>\n

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This is the type of thing that often turns out to be a hoax<\/a> so I spent some time searching, but I can’t find any evidence that it isn’t authentic.<\/p>\n

Also see: reasons not to hire women<\/a> and if you don’t fire women, men have to be bums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marc Sobel sent in this IBM memo from 1951 that announces a “temporary modification” of corporate policy to allow married women to work at the company: This is the type of thing that often turns out to be a hoax so I spent some time searching, but I can’t find any evidence that it isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2088,2098,2100,253,23705],"class_list":["post-24786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-work","tag-history","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24786"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44393,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24786\/revisions\/44393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}