Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mtung.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!jdh From: jdh@mtung.UUCP (Julia Harper) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <581@mtung.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:20:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mtung.581 Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:20:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 07:20:05 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA>, <8204@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.women:6083 net.politics:9582 net.social:739 >"Actually, many of the factors that contribute to the earnings gap are the >result of personal choices made by women themselves, not decisions thrust >on them by bosses. The most important example is marriage." >"These differences between married women and single women (and between >married women and men, for that matter) contribute dramatically to >reducing the earnings of married women. Thus we find, in a comparison of >the earnings of never-married women and those of never-married men, that >the women's earnings in 1980 were 89 percent of men's. This figure has >been essentially unchanged since the 1960 census. So if one is looking >for a "culprit" for the earnings gap, it is far more plausible to pin the >blame on *marital status* than on *gender*." These statistics about women, income and marriage certainly hit home with me! I'd say it sounds like hanging around with men is bad for women's personal income health (and perhaps a few other kinds of health... "they" say that unmarried women are happier than married women, and vice versa for men.) Perhaps separatism has much more to offer than many women realize.... -- Julia Harper [ihnp4,ariel]!mtung!jdh