[Jewelry making - Article 00107] - Re: [Orchid] Self taught Vs Formal training

[Melissa Veres]

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>     But in 1982, I was still being paid only 60 cents for every
>     dollar the less skilled, and seriously design challenged, men I
>     worked next to were making because I was a GIRL. The women's
>     movement has done very little to change this pheromone. Equal pay
>     for equal work does not exist in the jewelry industry. Not in the
>     US and not overseas Speaking as a male - I don't believe this is
>     literally true. 

    I have to agree with Nanz. I started in the early seventies, and
    there were only a handful of women in my trade school. When I first
    worked in a retail store, many of the customers were skeptical that
    this young woman was going to fix their jewelry-they were looking
    for that little old man with the loupe attached to his glasses to
    come out and speak with them. My line was that since I actually wore
    the stuff, I had the advantage of knowing how it fit and how it
    should work. That didn't bring me any more in the way of a salary of
    course. I know a number of women jewelers now who have started at a
    similar point in time, and we all come from a common experience
    here.

Melissa Veres, engraver


 
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