Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <1340250@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 15:49:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340250 Posted: Mon Jul 1 15:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 04:04:33 EDT References: <8204@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: New York University Lines: 22 >/* beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) / 10:15 am Jun 27, 1985 */ >Right. We should pay nurses less because it's *so* much more pleasant and >rewarding to watch people in agony die than it is to do dirty and dangerous >work like resurfacing roads. Earth to Frank, Earth to Frank - methinks >you're on the wrong planet. > >I'm personally *certain* that teachers, nurses and social workers across >the nation consider the intangible benefits they get from being asked to >give of their very essence *all* the time to *more* than compensate for >being only barely able to support themselves and their kid(s). Then why don't these teachers, nurses and social workers become road resurfacers? Such qualities as intangible compensation and difficulty of a job typically do affect pay scales, but they do so indirectly, i.e., they are factors that affect the value society places on the work of an additional teacher, etc. (given that there are already X teachers, etc. functioning as such within society). Mike Sykora