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From: chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: A new form of institutionalized bigotry(really underpaid secs)
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:12:57 EDT
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> > L S Chabot decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa
> 
> I've been wondering for a while WHY secretaries are so underpaid, yet  there
> is  never  a  shortage  of secretaries.  It's not an easy job (I couldn't do
> it), it doesn't pay well enough to support one person, in many places  there
> is  virtually  no  hope for advancement.  Added to that they are practically
> indispensible.  Why do so many women stay in the field?  
> 
> How does such an important job rate such a flagrantly low wage?  In the city
> there is no way a secretary can pay  an  apartment  rent.   Do  high  school
> guidance  counselors  channel  women  into  secretarial  programs or do they
> choose them themselves?

HEY!!  I didn't say this!!

L S Chabot    decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot     chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa