Men Allowed To Attend 'Women for Hire' NYC Career Expo

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2009-02-25 20:49

Story here. Excerpt:

'Tory Johnson, the organizer of the 10-year-old event and chief executive of Women for Hire, said the crowd was something she had never seen before. The expo, which saw about 1,500 people pass through its doors when it was last held in September, recorded that many attendees in the first hour.

Overall, the event brought in 5,103 people, according to Johnson. She noted that while most of the attendees were unemployed, some came to prepare for the possibility of a pink slip.

Men were allowed to attend the biannual event for the first time. Johnson said the decision was borne out of dozens of requests from women who had attended previous events, seeing a need for their husbands, brothers and fathers to find a job, too. About one of every five people in the line that spanned two city blocks was a man.'

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Statistics show that men are more likely to face unemployment than women. It's nice that they realized men could use a helping hand in finding a job in these hard times as well. I'm all for helping anybody in need out, but to exclude someone based on gender isn't right. I'm glad this event's organizer was fair enough to realize that.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2009-02-26 05:56

I hope it isn't a one time deal to keep the child support coming though.

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Submitted by Michael on Thu, 2009-02-26 17:45