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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Equal pay for comparable worth
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 10:51:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 10:51:58 1985
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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