The, Last Man Out
He walks in through those doors every day, Monday to Friday, first man in, last
man out. A limp follows his every step telling the story of a body that has long seen
its best days. He has White hair, wrinkles, and round glasses, that allow him to look
cartoonish, if you didn t know him better. He stands tall and proud, working as hard if
not harder than any young manin the company. At 66 years old, Julian still feels
strong and willful enough to manage a crew of 6 in Atlas refinery, where he s
worked for over 30 years and can be contributed for a lot of the company s
continued success. He s the version of the kind of man his father taught him to be,
growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. His children are all grown up now, but he still goes to
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When I asked him what his idea of what a man and a woman was supposed to be
growing up he replied I guess a man was supposed to go get a job, find a wife, have a
couple of kids and provide for the family. Women stayed home and looked after the
kids, they didn t work as much as today . As expected women were your typical stay
at home parent who took care of the cleaning, cooking and the kids while dad did all
the money making.
This ability to work gave men the upper hand, if a woman couldn t work, and
provide, she had very little power over her destiny. In fact, it was not until the Equal
Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that it became illegal to refuse a credit card to a
woman based on her gender. That s right, up until 1974 credit was denied to women
unless she was married and her husband cosigned. According to the Census bureau
only about 14 million women worked a full time job in 1967, earning only a
medium of $20,000 a year. In that very same year 36 million men held a full time
job, earning a medium of about $34,000 a year. That s without considering
harassment, and sexual assault that women were more likely to endure then.
In the middle of Americans fighting for domestic equality, the country found itself in
the middle of a war, far away in Vietnam. A war fought over idealism and who
between the Soviet Union and the united states had the upper hand. In those days, men