Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!muffy From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <678@lll-crg.ARPA> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 02:30:48 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.678 Posted: Wed Jul 3 02:30:48 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:07:42 EDT References: <8204@ucbvax.ARPA> <1340250@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group Lines: 24 In article <1340250@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes: >>/* 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. >> > >Then why don't these teachers, nurses and social workers become road >resurfacers? Why? Has it not occurred to anyone on here that some people might actually take jobs because that is the kind off job they want? And given that they enjoy the job, they *still* might wish to be well or appropriately paid? And that they might know they would be better paid in aother job, but not want to *do* that job? I mean, I'd probably be better paid as a plumber (*grin*) but hacking is all I want to do. Also, for all this talk of "intangible benefits," intangible things aren't very good as food, clothing, or shelter...they're too...well...intangible (*smile*). Muffy