Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics,net.women Subject: Re: opportunities, women Message-ID: <5771@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 17:40:09 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5771 Posted: Tue Jul 9 17:40:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 17:40:09 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP>, <2158@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > What exactly is cosmetic about equal pay for work of equal value? > I would certainly insist on being paid what my work is worth, > wouldn't you? Do you really expect to convince a bureaucrat from the Ministry of Economic Justice that you are more competent than a female ethnic handicapped Francophone with similar *formal* qualifications... even if you are? Competence is much harder to assess than skin color or shape. Who can blame a bored civil servant for taking the easy way out? -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry