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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <1340264@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:59:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340264 Posted: Fri Jul 12 00:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:31:11 EDT References: <8204@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: New York University Lines: 35 >/* mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) / 5:31 pm Jul 5, 1985 */ >He is >unwilling to recognize what US law has for close to a century: that the >labor market is controlled by the employers, who are capable (and willing) >to set the wages at whatever level they want, for whatever reason they want. You must be joking, Charley! How about some theoretical reasoning to justify this claim, including, of course, a refutation of the law of supply and demand (there's a Nobel prize in it for you). How about some empirical evidence to back up this claim. >The fact that we have labor unions is sufficient demonstration that >employers are quite willing to set unreasonable wages. And the fact that there are bigots in the world is "sufficient demonstration" that some ethnic groups are inferior, right? Is this some new form of logic you are employing? Please expound. >They do not have the money to resist the illegal >actions of their employers, nor do they have the choice of picking up and >moving away. This is indeed unfortunate and should be corrected by law. The government should protect these people from illegal actions of employers and anyone else, THAT is its job. >Besides, if the secretary secretly runs the whole thing, why isn't she paid >commensurately? If the secretary runs the whole thing, why is he/she still a secretary? >Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe Mike Sykora