Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Equal pay for comparable worth Message-ID: <239@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 10:51:58 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.239 Posted: Wed Feb 6 10:51:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 04:58:33 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 How about letting the abortion and pornography debates (flame contests? :-) simmer for a while and shift to something else? What do you usenetters think of the concept of "equal pay for comparable work"? As I understand it, this is to reduce the difference between pay scales in "male dominated" (e.g. truck drivers) vs "female dominated" (e.g. nurses, secretaries) occupations. There would presumably have to be an equivalency chart or something. This raises a lot of questions: who draws up the chart? how about occupations that arise after the chart is drawn up (for example, if we had had such a chart 3 years ago, would it have contained the "toxic waste cleaner-upper", or something like that)? does this not constitute the establishment of national pay scales (e.g. socialism)? etc, etc. Any ideas or comments? Marcel Simon