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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 10:04:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 10:04:33 1985
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Summary: 

Frank Silbermann writes:
>..women more often choose occupations which center around helping other people
>and cooperating with them (teacher, nurse, secretary, social worker)...
>Men more often find themselves in occupations which either isolate them
>from other people, or pits them in anxiety-provoking competition.
>
>The fallacy of the equal-pay-for-equal-work idea is that it compares
>only the paychecks and level of skill and training required.  If we do not
>also factor in the safety, pleasantness, and emotional effects of the job,
>then this plan is likely to create more unfairness than it rectifies.

This sounds fine, except nursing (and other health support occupations) are
HIGHEST on the work-anxiety scale.  Something about being around dying people.

Merlyn Leroy