Haha, all of this. If you’re in a couple then you get a fuckload of side eye and foot-tapping but society gives you a provisional pass because at least you’re on the right trajectory. But if you’re single and over a certain age? SYSTEM ERROR.

To be fair the whole “Wall Street” excuse is usually just double-speak for “dares to run for president while female”

Bahrain is a massive Naval cargo hub in the Persian Gulf. It’s not so much that we provide them military aid as they let us pay to park our ships there so long as we don’t say shit about their government practices.

Jerry also didn’t force civilian factories to produce war materiel until late in the war as well heck german war production peaked in 44.

Stuff You Missed In History Class did a podcast on them if you’re interested in hearing more info on the topic. It’s really fascinating. I highly recommend it: http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/wasp-…

He basically threatened me with a pay cut down to the level of the woman I was trying to get to get a pay raise. So I asked if any of the other men would accept pay equal to her even if it meant a pay cut and everyone in the room raised their hands. Including the man’s boss, who happened to be in the room at the time.

Richard Cohan should know it’s just a biological fact that “little swimmer” counts are ebbing for men in the Western world. I’d love to see him scratching his head over that.

I’ll be honest, the headline is the most intriguing part of this story for me. Everything else is completely expected and unsurprising.

I mean come on, we’re in an election year where people with a straight face argue they won’t ever vote for one candidate because ‘she’s been corrupted by the Wall St richy-rich people’…

Every woman knows they do the same amount of work (or more) but don't brag about it enough that anyone ever knows.

Somewhat unrelated... Can anyone recommend some good women’s history focused podcasts? My fiance loves Hardcore History but everything I’ve overheard on the show has been about men. I’d love to give him some material that doesn’t ignore half the world’s contributions to history.

The part that gets me is him women deserve the same pay as men if they do the same quality of work.

I respect women! But only if you bow to me... and I better deem you good looking and you better not be fat!

When the government does something that you would have assumed was already a thing

I always thought it was so cool that my little green army men collection actually had boths WAVES and WACs in it. This was back in the late 70s. I had no idea of what they were, so I went to the library and learned as much as I could. I was fascinated that my toys taught me things about the war that my classroom never…

My hormones can’t handle this. I got a happy cry out of this article. I’m glad things worked out.

I can see why they had to be kept out. Their presence would have distracted the male corpses from properly carrying out their duties.

Practically obligatory link to Stuff You Missed in History episodes on the WASPs: Part 1, Part 2

What needs to be recognized was why these women were used as pilots in the first place. Using women for support operations freed up men to fly in combat. But without those women flying in support of the front line operations, the guys in combat wouldn’t have been able to do their jobs for very long. Much of the work…

I graduated from college with a WASP - she was so proud to fianlly earn her degree. These women are a national treasure.

Amazing. FINALLY.