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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: FAIR PAY FOR EQUAL WORK - Women should be more confident
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  3 00:00:00 1985
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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A system that tells people who they can and cannot hire is NOT a capitalist
system - don't call it that.

The point is that equal pay for work of equal value IS the capitalist
system.  Capitalism means free trade and that means that things cost
exactly what they are worth because the definition of value is what you can
charge for something.

While legislation may be necessary in the SHORT TERM to correct basic
inequality in things like education level, there is never any need for laws
at the employer end.

Face it.  If an employer refuses to hire women at a reasonable price, as long
as there are some employers who will, then that first employer will get
poor employees.   All the best of 1/2 the human race will work for the
employers who DO pay.  And hiring bad employees is plain old bad business
practice.  And in a competitive market, you know what the result of
inferior business practices is.

The fact that some employers are stupid enough to be sexist in their hiring
policies is their fault.  It's not our job to help them stay afloat.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473