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- From: silverm@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Silverman)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Entry level salaries (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <4246@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:50:32 GMT
- References: <9NOV199210165558@mary.fordham.edu> <MUFFY.92Nov9082355@remarque.berkeley.edu> <23942@galaxy.ucr.edu> <1992Nov15.164519.7099@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini) writes:
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- >Starbuck, Muffy has asked perfectly valid statistical questions.
- >*I* see no flame in there. (Indeed, there is *no* position stated
- >there.)
-
- >Now please look at your post. You accuse her of "pissing" on stuff,
- >and being a "whiner" and a "stumbling block"... What's the deal?
- >Who's being the vitriolic complainer here?
-
- >>I bet you don't understand why more and more people are begining to think
- >>feminism sucks.
-
- >I would certianly *hope* it's not because people like you go around
- >calling feminists "whiners" for asking questions....
-
- >rini
-
- Actually, the question is more complicated than that, because different people
- are doing different things. I would want to see the average salaries of people
- who are attorneys compared with, say, people who are locomotive engineers. It
- might be the case that, for example, there is little discrimination among
- people who are computer jocks but terribly discrimination among people who are
- long haul truck drivers. Also, the evidence is going to have to be statistical
- in nature, because everybody, male and female, has good experiences and bad
- experiences working. Do women have more bad experiences than men or worse
- bad experiences?
-
- Then comes the tantalizing question of why? Perhaps women attorneys are more
- willing to represent clients who can't pay (the legal term is pro bono).
- Perhaps women are less likely to drive really long hauls, because they don't
- want to be away from their families. Or maybe they are really getting screwed.
- Maybe men are more willing to fight for higher pay. My experience at Boeing,
- and it is limited experience, is that the hourly people are more willing to
- strike for higher pay, so many hourly people are better paid than the salaried
- people who are, presumably, better trained and scarcer. So who's to say?
- From the evidence available to us, we can't really say one way or the other
- (although, speaking as the kind of white, male asshole your P.C. friends
- warned you about, I have a hunch that to be a woman in our society means you
- are shafted, but not as badly as any other society in recent history).
-
- You know, we're all more or less computer literate here. As part of the
- thought process for using computers, we ought to be taking the time to think
- carefully about what we know, what we think we know, etc. We have a moral
- responsibility to treat the data with respect. The only reason why I bring this
- up is that I forsee this thread turning into a flame war, and the issue is
- too important for that.
-
- Jeff Silverman, Boeing.
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-