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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 01:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 01:45:00 1985
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>/* muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) /  2:30 am  Jul  3, 1985 */

>Why?  Has it not occurred to anyone on here that some people might actually
>take jobs because that is the kind off job they want?  And given that they 
>enjoy the job, they *still* might wish to be well or appropriately paid?

That is precisely the point I wished to draw out.  That many people are
using this "comparative worth" nonsense to justify having their cake
and eating it to.

What in the world constitutes appropriate pay?  If you and I disagree
over what constitutes appropriate pay, how can this impasse be resolved?
To say that pay should be based on the amount of work someone does
is of no use if work cannot be measured.  Moreover, why should the
amount of work someone (i.e., how many hours, how hard, . . .) be
the factor deciding pay?  Why should it not be how valuable the work
is to other people?

>And that they might know they would be better paid in aother job,
>but not want to *do* that job?

Then they have to give up the better pay.  That is what is known as a
"decision."

                 Muffy

						Mike Sykora

P.S.  --  I don't mean to be rude
	  But I'm in a bad mood.