From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 11:30:22 MDT
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> Whether the wage gap is true or not, Samantha's quote
>
> > 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".
>
> really _is_ spoken today, and during the last 10 years. My old boss that
> I described previously even told others that my boyfriend was probably
> doing my coding work for me, despite the fact that I was on mountaintops
> at telescopes at my boss' side for years, programming happily away.
>
> This is 2002, not the Middle Ages. Why is it so difficult to accept the
> differences between the genders, and instead look for lame excuses to
> say one has a lesser value? It is unacceptable, period, to say that one
> has a lesser value than another, whether it is a man, a woman, or any
> variation in the spectrum between.
Yes, it is unacceptable. So is claiming that there is a bias in
compensation on the part of employers when the bias is actually in the
choices that women themselves make.
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