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What the supervisor sawA first-line manager on the six months after his line went from all-male to a third women, written in his own words.
The first fifty women on the floorA dyeing unit went from four women across three shifts to fifty-one in two years. Nothing about the machines changed.
What changed when the shift ended at nineMoving the shift forward cost the plant eleven minutes of line time a day. It kept nineteen of the twenty-three women who had given notice.