"Women do not do any of the creative work."

[sarainc]

Comments

[kokeshikitten]

I talked about this to some family and a family friend who was in the room last night when I saw this post. I got ripped a new one for being offended at it. "Disney wasn't going to put money into someone who could just up and get pregnant and leave at any time. And back then, when you got pregnant, you were expected to stop working, blah blah blah..." I could kind of see their point that things were different back then, but then again, it doesn't mean we can't marvel about how different things are now.

[heycookie]

So basically they're saying that women were only capable of performing tasks that amounted to paint-by-number. Sheesh. It's hard for me to imagine a mindset that engenders such generalizations...thank goodness times have changed! :/

[ms_pooka]

i love the hilarity coming from that kind of letter being printed on that kind of paper.

[ltmurnau]

Even funnier, the rejection letter is signed by a woman. I guess they were equal to that kind of creative work.

[dearbrains]

My grandmother worked for Disney for almost 40 years. She started in the film room, splicing film and rolling reels and such. There were no women artists and she always thought that was awful. All the women worked in the film room, as secretaries(which is probably why this letter is signed by a woman), or other simple jobs. She really disliked some of the policies at Disney, but both her and my grandfather worked there and I think in her generation any job was a good job and you wanted to keep it, etc.

other related things:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/8166/The_Mystery_of_the_Female_Disney_Animator
http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/disney-1939-girls-are-not-considered.html