THE ONLY BLATANTLY SEXIST RECRUITING PRACTICES I FOUND WERE IN THE CIA

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• Publication Date: July 19, 1974
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vada, a political frontier for women
candidates, may be one of the remain-
ing, critical states to vote support for
the ERA.
Keep your eye on Nevada !
Pat Gothberg
Reno, iN ev.
Editors' Note: The state legislature
is not the only target for political
women in Nevada this year. Maya
Miller, Democrat from Carson City,
has announced her candidacy for the
U.S. Senate.
The only blatantly sexist
6-6 recruiting practices I 99
found were in the CIA
Currently I am a candidate for a
Ph.D. in Economics. During the past
few months I have been in contact
with private, academic, and govern-
ment organizations concerning open-
ings for economists. Since the federal
government has been forcing affirma-
tive action programs on various or-
ganizations, I found it ironic that the
only blatantly sexist recruiting prac-
tices I found were in a government
organization, the Central Intelligence
Agency.
During an interview with a repre-
sentative of the CIA's personnel of-
fice, I was informed by the inter-
viewer that "they" were worried
about inc, since they assumed that
my career was secondary to my hus-
band's and they did not want to spend
money processing my application if
all of my current and future employ-
ment decisions would be dependent
on my husband's job. When I tried
to explain that my husband and I
both felt that my profession was the
more specialized and that I would
find a job first, and he would look for
a job in that geographic area, the
interviewer made the snide remark,
"famous last words."
Since the job of research econo-
mist consisted partly in becoming an
expert on various economic problems
all over the world, I thought it only
reasonable that travel to those parts
of the world would be included in
the job. When I asked about the pos-
sibilities of travel, I was given an
extensive lecture on how dangerous
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not allow a young woman with family
responsibilities (a son and a hus-
band) to travel away from home.
WW 'hen I asked if a young man with
a wife and son would be allowed to
travel, the interviewer answered,
"We don't send young mothers to
Uganda." Thus the interview ended.
The next step in the CIA's recruit-
ing process consists of a three-and-a-
half-hour battery of tests. The first
two and a half hours consisted of
standardized verbal and mathemati-
cal aptitude tests. The last hour was
devoted to a vocational aptitude and
preference test which was supposedly
designed to determine the fitness of
the candidate for a long-term career
with the CIA. When the test was
handed out, I was shocked to see that
men and women were receiving dif-
ferent tests-those for men had a
blue cover; for women, a pink cover!
I was asked : "Do you prefer house-
hold magazines or fashion maga-
zines?" "Would you rather be the
wife of a research scientist or the wife
of a rancher ?" "Would you rather
spend a lot of time putting on makeup
or go out without makeup ?" "Would
you rather cook or sew a dress?" I
failed to see how these questions were
relevant or useful in determining my
suitability as a research economist.
Needless to say, I do not intend to
pursue my employment opportunities
with the CIA. I only hope that in the
future all government agencies will
take affirmative action seriously.
B. Jennine Anderson
Charlottesville, Va.
Richard Farson's ".A Child's Bill of
Rights" (March, 1974) is indeed a
fine ideal, but it is obviously the
product of a society that is, by world
standards, lavishly wealthy. As mem-
bers of the U.S. Committee for
UNICEF, the United Nations Chil-
dren's Fund, we cannot help but con-
trast Mr. Parson's struggle for chil-
dren's sexual freedom, suffrage, and
choice of home environment with
Third :World youngsters' daily bat-
tles witli hunger, disease, devastating
poverty and neglect. There are many
children in the United States today
who must also contend with such
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Edie
Meant to sent this to you sooner but this
new job really.keeps me hopping. I am
sending a copy to Mr. Holmes also with a
brief note.
Call me for lunci
to Hqs.
if you get out
Fran
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