Reply #19: One of my cousins was a teller for a Minneapolis bank that didn't hire

[Lydia Leftcoast]

women for management positions.

Thanks to a class action suit, the bank was ordered to open management training to current tellers. My cousin applied and was trained as a loan officer, even though she never finished college.

No college degree, no MBA in Finance, and she did just fine, being promoted a couple of times before her husband got a job offer too good to refuse in another state.

Maybe it's time for another set of class action suits?

(Side note: If there's anything I hate about hiring practices in the last thirty years it's that companies have stopped hiring liberal arts grads and training them in-house, which was standard procedure until about 1980. As a result, business became the most popular college major almost overnight. At my alma mater, the business department also decreed which courses their majors would have to use to meet their general education requirements. It's not that the courses were bad in themselves; it was that they offered as narrow and pro-business view of the world. At the same time, most Federal aid for higher education was cut, and the only sure way for many students to afford college was ROTC, where they received a pro-military, pro-imperialism view of the world. Folks, there are your Republican voters.)