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From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 15:17:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 15:17:44 1985
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> 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.

It is a crock.  Supply and demand sets fair wages.  If a woman wants the extra
money associated with driving a truck, she can try to get a rig or work for
an agency and drive trucks...

> 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.

Yes, it does constitute the establishment of national pay scales, albeit
not by the propossed laws themselves, but by how they will be interpretted.
It is like affirmative action and quotas.  Quotas are not required by law,
but if you don't meet them you get strung by your thumbs.

	--Cliff [Matthews]
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