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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: Entry level salaries (was: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.003203.223@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <9NOV199210165558@mary.fordham.edu> <MUFFY.92Nov9082355@remarque.berkeley.edu> <GFZSBZ9@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:32:03 GMT
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- In article <GFZSBZ9@cc.swarthmore.edu> auer@cs.swarthmore.edu
- (David S. Auer) writes:
-
- >Another possible skewing perhaps overlooked in those figures, and to my eyes
- >a more relevant one is the figures for number of men and women graduating
- >this year with Ph. D.'s in math.
- >
- >Perhaps, women's higher wages, (the implication by Leonard being that the
- >difference is small), may be fully explained in that women math Ph.D.'s are
- >more of a commodity than men math Ph.D.'s (which if one accepts Leonard's
- >claim as being accurate would imply that the value of being a female
- >commodity in a more traditionally male discipline is not particularly rewarding
- >financially. Granted there is an implied causal link in there which may not
- >exist, yet I am unfrightened by that possibility.)
-
- Why should someone who is looking to hire a new Ph.D. in math care
- about the sex of the person being hired? (I know that they often do
- care; I'm asking why they _should_.)
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
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