Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

If you can’t see the type on the letter, which came to a woman in 1938 who applied for a job cartooning for Disney, it essentially says that girls (and thats the wording they used, girls and young men) aren’t allowed and that all the creative work is done by “young men.” But I do LOVE that cute stationary,  eh? One of the Commenters on the post at BoingBoing said that in ’97 she was turned down by a recruiter at a Brown job fair when she asked about jobs for a developer, writing code because “you’re a girl.” The guy got fired, but still…that was just 10 years ago, it says alot about the company dynamics and culture behind the carefully moderated PR scene. And you wouldn’t necessarily expect it from such a family friendly, trusted old brand…or WOULD you, cause I’ve had many a conspiracy theorist tell me about the evil old ways of Walt Disney, the rumored anti-Semite, pedophile, devil worshipper and what else have you…