Two
summers ago, Clare bumped into one of her travel teammates; they were both
interning for the Bandits. Last year,
Clare stuck with the park district while her friend moved on to the White Sox;
she was one of those people who throw tee-shirts into the stands. Clare thought it would’ve been neat to see
all those Sox games, but she never got around applying for a position. Given what I’ve said and written about the
team over the years, I doubt her chances were very good.
Anyway,
last week the friend wrote on Facebook that she was applying to the Bears, and
Clare was really excited for her, at first.
“I thought she was going to get to use her [master’s] degree,” but No;
it would be more of the tee-shirt thing, this time at Soldier Field. That’s how professional sports wants women on
the field, as unpaid or little-paid staff.
The important jobs, the ones with power and money attached, are almost
all reserved for the guys. The progress
here is my daughter sees that now.
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