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Portland Post Office faced ‘war of sexes’ 60 years ago when more women began to join department
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
Postal clerk Vermell Akiyama said in 1959 the trouble at the Post Office was that there are not enough women. If there were more they wouldn t gripe about us being here. There would be too many of us to fight against.
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In 1959, nearly three decades before the U.S. Congress established March as Women’s History Month, a “war of the sexes” broke out in Portland’s post office.
The U.S. Postal Service, then called the U.S. Post Office Department, had decided that more women should be hired. Not everyone i.e., some of the men working at the post office was happy about this.