Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!dbb From: dbb@opus.UUCP (David B. Bordeau) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth Message-ID: <1113@opus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 10:57:36 EST Article-I.D.: opus.1113 Posted: Tue Feb 26 10:57:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:32:15 EST References: <239@mhuxr.UUCP> <18200003@uiucdcsp.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 21 > > Labor IS just another commodity -- and its value should > be set be the FREE market. Since in the US human beings > are free to CHOOSE their occupation, regardless of sex, > I don't see why Ed is whining. Unless, of course, he has > chosen a field that is not in as a high a demand as some > others, and now feels that society has cheated him. How > would he have wages and salaries determined, if not be > the free market? Hear, Hear!! Could this be true, someone who believes you have to go out there and make it because you're a good worker and have drive to do well in the work place not because you are an immigrant or female or handicapped or whatever your situation may be. Sure, I believe women are SOMETIMES paid less than men but they don't have to work at th Please Don't Send Any Letter Bombs, David Bordeau