From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 08:40:00 MDT
Phil Osborn wrote:
>
> >Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com) wrote on Sun
> May 19 2002 - 00:46:28 MDT
>
> Men are paid more on average because of the long years
> a woman's place was only seen as in the home, because
> of lingering prejudice and because of such notions
> that she "probably has a man to help take care of her"
> or "is liable to find one and disappear to make
> babies". >
>
> Or how about "when her husband has to move to stay
> with his career, she will probably quit and leave with
> him." Or, "if she gets pregnant, there is a good
> chance that she will take extended leave and, as
> mandated under law in many jurisdictions, the company
> cannot fire her and bring in a permanent employee to
> replace her."
>
The wage disparity issue is a myth invented by radical man hating
feminists. The fact is that as women have become a majority in the
workplace, they have consistently eschewed higher pay in exchange for
more flexibility in hours and scheduling. This is primarily due to their
choice to have children and be the primary care giver (if not the only
caregiver) to their children. When this phenomenon is accounted for, one
sees that in fact women make at least as much as men for similar or same
positions.
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In addition, the same flexibilities are often taken away from young single
male professionals, who are often expected to put in long hours and
overtime, a bias in this country against single professionals with no
children, especially men. Re the wage gap "the predominance of men at the
highest levels of business and government is due, not to "sexism," but to
women's own desire to rear children, even at some cost to their careers.
(See Women's Figures and the forthcoming book, The Feminist Dilemma, both by
Furchtgott-Roth and Stolba.)" (1) Or, as Tina Fey put it on SNL this
weekend, Feminism cant change biology (much to the chagrin of
post-modernists and liberal pc propagandaists that gender is only a social
construct and not an objective biological one)
"A Jan. 23 congressional study claimed that salaries for women managers in
seven out of 10 industries examined had declined from 1995 to 2000.
Uncritical newspapers rushed to announce that the wage gap between men and
women had widened. But National Review columnist Betsy Hart took the time to
examine the study commissioned by Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and John
Dingell, D-Mich. She found it to be a "biased and highly-emotionalized
reinterpretation" that the "creative" staff of Maloney and Dingell had
imposed upon otherwise straightforward data. The reinterpretation allowed
Maloney to label the study explosively as "a wake-up call" for America and
to hint at the need for more federal regulation in the workplace. "(2)
(1) - Subject: Affirmative Action is a bad idea from -
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/kurtz091001.shtml
(2) - Lady, your slip is showing from -
http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0219.html
Regards,
Michael
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