[ARC5] Gender, markets and history

[Brian]

Hello Ben,

Sorry if you feel miffed.

I should have been more specific. 'Recent' is quite vague. The 'recent' I 
had in mind was 'post WWII'. Perhaps I should have used 'more recent'.

In my rush to point out male chauvinism in radio set design, I should have 
noted that Heath produced sets in different colours from the WWII grey and 
black. And I should have noted the rounded corners on Collins cabinets, 
compared with the skin-removing (or Nylon stocking tearing) sharp corners 
everywhere else.

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

On Friday, November 20, 2015 11:49 AM , you said:

snip> Perhaps you are forgetting exactly what you
wrote:

"name just one recent female military purchasing executive."

Note the word "recent."

If your intent was to ask about female procurement officers in WWII,
there were none, and I would never have responded.  However, you
specifically said "recent."

I take "recent" to mean "having happened, begun, or been done not long
ago or not long before; belonging to a past period of time comparatively
close to the present."

Perhaps your definition of the word differs; certainly our two versions
of the English language have some words with very different meanings.
IE:  mate, Barbie, thongs, etc...  Wouldn't be the first time a word
with a different meaning in two places caused errant communication.

My response was absolutely clear in specifying that I was addressing the
current time.  Note my lead-in:

"It's much different today..."

So clearly, I was NOT referring to the WWII time frame.

Given the above, your snarky response absolutely puzzles me...

thanks and 73,
ben, kd5byb