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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
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 12:56:09 1985
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Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster)
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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
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"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
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