Last week in another conversation on this site a comment was made by someone about how they couldn’t believe that women were still whinning about the sexist things that had happened to them 30-40 years ago. Well, I hope that person is reading all of this and getting a better understanding about all of the conversations we still need to be having with regard to how women are treated and thought of and what is still expected of them. Ladies, if we don’t keep whinning (and I fear we haven’t been doing enough of it over the last 20 years) we will find ourselves right back where we were. All of these questions and comments simply emerge out of the history of how women are viewed in our society. Thank goodness that we can at least still have the conversation. Keep an eye on things because if you aren’t vigilant the backsliding will continue and both our sons and daughters will suffer for it!

This is not too surprising to me but the good news is that once they “allowed” us into the transit workplace we simply started taking over! I run a public transit agency with over 50% of the managerial staff positions being held by women. Also, my Board of Directors is over 50% women. As it turns out this is as it should be since women are the majority of public transit riders! Great story, uplifting to see how far we have come but sobering to know that we still have a long way to go!