{"id":6803,"date":"2017-08-11T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/just-men-at-work-signs-ignore-another-gender-at-work\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:57:49","slug":"just-men-at-work-signs-ignore-another-gender-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/just-men-at-work-signs-ignore-another-gender-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Just &#8216;Men at Work&#8217;? Signs ignore another gender at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Many of us may ignore the &#8220;Men Working&#8221; signs we see along roadways and construction sites because that&#8217;s just the way it has always been. But for Furman politics and international affairs major Katherine West &#8217;19 and her sister Anna Claire, a student at a Northern Kentucky high school, the gender slight was too much to dismiss. Bothered by the &#8220;men working&#8221; signs in their neighborhood where female construction workers are on site, the West sisters took their complaint to the Edgewood, Kentucky City Council, according to a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcnky.com\/articles\/2017\/08\/09\/women-work-too-sisters-ask-edgewood-change-construction-signs\"><em><strong>River City News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. A note from Katherine West to Furman department chair and professor Liz Smith describes the outcome. West writes, &#8220;The City Council was super receptive, and all the signs are now being changed&#8230;We\u2019re presenting to a group of nine mayors from adjacent cities &#8230; to get the signs changed across the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us may ignore the &#8220;Men Working&#8221; signs we see along roadways and construction sites because that&#8217;s just the way it has always been. But for Furman politics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}