Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: topics of marriage Message-ID: <1258@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:56:09 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1258 Posted: Tue Jul 2 12:56:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 04:27:40 EDT References: <892@druxo.UUCP> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 22 In article <892@druxo.UUCP> nap@druxo.UUCP (ParsonsNA) writes: > >> "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." > >Again the advantage goes to the male...ever heard anyone discuss the factor >of marriage as detrimental to a male's salary? > From my admittedly skewed perspective (that of a young, white, single male), it seems that all other factors being relatively equal, the married man gets the job/raise/promotion much more readily than the single man. After all, he is responsible (the key word) for his, his wife's, and all the up-coming children's welfare, whereas single men are extremely irresponsible (consider things like auto insurance rates). -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."