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From: prudence@trwrba.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Do Statistics Prove Discrimination Against Women?
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 15:34:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 15:34:08 1984
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     Once more the demagogues are lying with statistics, and
once more shall I set the record straight, though I have
long since lost faith in the power of truth against willful
ignorance.
     The statistical lie is that women are victims of discri-
mination because they earn less than men.
     The facts are these:  In 1978, the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission released the results of the most
expensive, most thorough investigation of this subject ever
undertaken.  It confirmed that the average woman makes less
than the average man -- that was never in doubt -- but it
found absolutely no evidence that this was because of
discrimination.  Instead, the study found that the average
woman takes more part-time jobs than the average man, that
the average woman drops out of the job market for longer
than the average man, that the average woman has less educa-
tion than the average man, that the average woman is less
likely to take a unionized job than the average man, and so
on and so forth.  In short, when women are compared with
equally qualified men in competition for the same jobs, the
study confirmed that the average woman will be paid at least
as much as the man.  She will, in fact, earn more thanks to
Affirmative Action.
     Sexual discrimination is wrong, period.