Rick HasenVerified account

The federal judge I clerked for on the Ninth Circuit asked the women clerks but not the men to do the typing when his assistant went to lunch. Lifetime appointments often lead to abuses of power.

Um...sorry, but is asking a clerk to type really abuse of power? It’s certainly chauvinism to ask women but not men to do it, but are you suggesting typing was beneath you? Because that’s gross.

Assuming they are hired for the same position/title, the tasks should be the same, correct?

Not suggesting typing is beneath me by any means. I’ve had jobs as a ranch hand, digging ditches, waiting tables, etc. But there was an entire context that can’t be explained in a tweet. My female co-clerk quit early after talking to EEOC.

That article horribly minimizes the accounts of these women. And that response is something.

This kind of "low level" harassment is so common. Every woman knows at least one guy, if not countless over the years, who can't stop talking about sex ad nauseam. They manage to interject something sexual into most everything. It's stifling, offensive and boring.