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- From: stewart@geophysics.harvard.edu (Cheryl Stewart)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Entry level salaries (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.212644.19459@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:26:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Nov16.212644.19459
- References: <1992Nov10.190242.26581@netcom.com>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Reply-To: stewart@geophysics.harvard.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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- >As things go, I would think of one with a doctorate as more
- >than just middle class.
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- Right. More than just middle class. You try supporting a family on
- $20-30K with no medical insurance and constant threat of unemployment.
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- I've been doing it for nearly three years now with my Ph.D. in Geophysics.
- I've had to move seven times in three years, because gee, nobody seems to
- have a full years support for me. Oh, they support their friends wives,
- their own wives and their girlfriends, but that's just because there are
- so few women who actually survive in geophysics if they're not willing
- to "put out." And if you're found out while putting out, you can either
- marry in or get out. I don't put out, which makes me "problematic."
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- Starting salaries for women in geophysics at the BA/BS levels are 68% of
- that of men. As opposed to, for instance 112% for women in Physics or
- 102% for women in Engineering. (Figures discussed and presented by Marilyn
- Suiter in January 1992 Geotimes). The percentages get worse as the level
- of education gets higher, and no matter what the starting salary, the
- amount a woman makes with equivalent education dives below that which a
- man makes within five years. (study published in last years' Graduating
- Engineer).
-