Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: FAIR PAY FOR EQUAL WORK - Women should be more confident Message-ID: <241@looking.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.241 Posted: Sun Mar 3 00:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:33:10 EST References: <222@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 23 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