Toolmakerette offered job
FA Auckland The Human Rights Commission has caused a firm to advertise for a non-existent worker: a female toolmaker, or fitter and turner. The firm, Charton Engineering, Ltd, was admonished by the commission after advertising for a male toolmaker or fitter and turner. It replaced the offending advertisement with a call for “toolmakerettes. fitterettes, and turnerettes” also to apply. But the manaeer (Mr A. V. Chiodera) said that the
advertisement was a waste of time and money. “There are,” he said, “no female toolmakers, fitters, or turners in New Zealand, and no self-respecting male fitter or turner would answer an advertisement like that.” The Chief Human Rights Commissioner (Mr P. J. Downey) said the firm ap- i peared to he having a I “little bit of fun” at the ! expense of the commis- : sion. “We do not expect everyone to go to that i extreme,” he said. The firm got its man after all. A male fitter and i turner answered the first advertisement.
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Press, 6 November 1978, Page 7
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