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!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Comparable worth -- what I suggest instead Message-ID: <1340256@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 02:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340256 Posted: Thu Jul 4 02:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:32:07 EDT References: <543@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 32 >/* cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) / 8:21 pm Jul 2, 1985 */ > . . . If employers make it so the only way >a woman is going to "make it" is by starving in a bad job or marrying, >then people will raise their daughters to marry, and to have "something >to fall back on if the marriage fails." You just got thru explaining that the reason women aren't "making it" is because of the influence of family and the surrounding culture. Now you say it's the employers who are causing women to marry instead of pursue careers. Which factor is it or which is dominant? >I agree that equality should start at home. But the home is the first >place of training for the outside world. And if the outside world dictates >inequality, then parents will raise their kids to be successful in an >unjust world. The only way to get parents to raise their daughters >to be successful in "man's jobs" is to make it clear to those parents >that their daughters won't be denied those jobs on the basis of sex >once they're out of college (an increasingly costly investment in any >child). So if you can't persuade them to raise their children the way you want, you'll twist their arms! >Fair-minded people across the nation advocate comparable worth legislation. >Too bad you're not one of them. Sorry, I won't gratuitously insult you. Cheryl Stewart Mike Sykora