{"id":10736,"date":"2024-09-27T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2024-09-27T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:03:05","slug":"breaking-glass-ceilings-bionicoldguy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=10736","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Glass Ceilings \u2013 BionicOldGuy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I have always been a fan of breaking glass ceilings, whether based on ethnicity or gender. I think it started because I was raised by a single mom. She struggled to make ends meet working as a secretary, but gave us a good life. Back then it was very hard for a woman to rise past secretary. But by the late 1970s more opportunities were becoming available, and at the age of 47 Mom broke through the glass ceiling and became manager of the customer service department at Hunt Wesson, a position at which she performed superbly.<\/p>\n<p>So I very much enjoyed reading <strong>Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women<\/strong>, by Maggie Mertens<\/p>\n<p>This book chronicles the history of women\u2019s running, and societies perception of how \u201cfragile\u201d woman are in general. This was a notion that seemed to start as soon as there were upper class women who did not have to do manual labor. There was the widespread belief, including in the medical profession, that they, and their reproductive systems, were delicate and they shouldn\u2019t strain themselves too much. The author gave some astonishing examples of this, like stairways with half-height stairs being installed in colleges for women so they wouldn\u2019t strain themselves going upstairs. I always wondered how the example of working class women was ignored, including the servants of the upper class. Those woman did quite strenuous work and their reproductive systems didn\u2019t seem to get harmed. Maggie explained this as an example of racism combined with sexism: working-class woman were thought to be of \u201clower breeding\u201d so they were closer to their \u201canimal nature\u201d, making them more robust. I\u2019m glad we now live in more enlightened times!<\/p>\n<p>One of the classic examples of how this \u201cfragility\u201d notion affected women is the 1920 Olympics. It was reported widely that several woman collapsed at the finish of the 800 meter run. Based on that it was assumed they had overexerted. For decades women were not allowed to run more than 200 meters in the Olympics. Maggie explained how the evidence for the collapse at the finish was actually quite dubious.<\/p>\n<p>Another obvious example is that of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathrine_Switzer\">Kathrine Switzer<\/a>, the first official female finisher of the Boston Marathon. She was told by various doctors that her uterus would fall out if she continued with such long distance running. I remember enjoying seeing her being interviewed 50 years later and reporting her uterus was still intact!<\/p>\n<p>Maggie goes over these and many other in covering the fascinating history of women and running in this highly recommended book.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Another Ceiling to Brea<\/em>k?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I normally avoid covering politics on this forum, but I am excited about the possibility that we can break another glass ceiling on Nov 5 by electing the first woman president of the US. I like her forward-looking policies. People can be reluctant to vote democrat because the conventional thinking is that the economy fares better under republicans. But in the analyses I\u2019ve seen, <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/kamala-harris-endorse-economist-biden-bush-obama-trump-1851655733\">economists\u00a0endorse Kamala\u2019s economic proposals compared to those of her rival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sd-content\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-linkedin\"\/>\n<li class=\"share-facebook\"\/>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\">\n<div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbionicoldguy.home.blog%2F2024%2F09%2F27%2Fbreaking-glass-ceilings%2F&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fbionicoldguy.home.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F09%2Fimage-17.png&amp;description=Breaking%20Glass%20Ceilings\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"share-end\"\/><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entry-author author-avatar-show\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=80&amp;d=&amp;r=G\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=80&amp;d=&amp;r=G 1x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=120&amp;d=&amp;r=G 1.5x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=160&amp;d=&amp;r=G 2x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=240&amp;d=&amp;r=G 3x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25e2835f41aad499102b7dccdf750ee9842e9a75fa2931cd1ba6fa84c47eafd5?s=320&amp;d=&amp;r=G 4x\" class=\"avatar avatar-80\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"author-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\tPublished by <span class=\"author-name\">BionicOldGuy<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-heading --><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\t\tI am a Mechanical Engineer born in 1953, Ph. 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This blog chronicles my adventures in staying active despite these bumps in the road.\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bionicoldguy.home.blog\/author\/richardking2213\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tView all posts by BionicOldGuy\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-auhtor --><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<strong>Published<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2024-09-27T06:27:00-07:00\">September 27, 2024<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2024-09-26T15:31:10-07:00\">September 26, 2024<\/time>\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .site-posted-on -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bionicoldguy.home.blog\/2024\/09\/27\/breaking-glass-ceilings\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a fan of breaking glass ceilings, whether based on ethnicity or gender. 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