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- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!adobe!kendall
- From: kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall)
- Subject: Pay Inequality in the 90's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.195226.6916@adobe.com>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:52:26 GMT
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- Heard on NPR this morning:
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- An interview with a San Francisco NOW representative and a female member of
- SF Mayor Frank Jordan's staff, some (mumble) title having to do with Policy.
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- I really did try to remember their names, but was not able to get it down on
- paper quick enough to do so.
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- NOW did a limited investigation of pay equity in SF city government - limited
- due to their use of volunteers and being outsiders.
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- Basically, they presented such statistics as:
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- If you are earning over $90,000/yr,
- there is a 100% chance that you are a man.
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- If you are earning under $30,000/yr,
- there is a 100% chance that you are a woman.
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- Out of all the SF Commission Director positions:
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- 75% are held by men and their AVERAGE salary is $115,000.
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- 25% are held by women and their AVERAGE salary is $65,000.
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- When Jordan's representative was asked about this, she said simply that
- a woman is not valued the same as a man and that she is working to change
- that from within. It was noted that the Giants baseball "crisis" garnered
- much concern and personal attention from Mayor Jordan, but sexism within
- his own administration does not.
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- She also receives much lower pay, as a direct report to Jordan, than the
- men who also directly report to Jordan, despite her 20 years of political
- experience as well as her work experience. She worked into a management
- from a cable splicer for GTE. She claims that "lack of experience and
- unqualified" can NOT be used to explain the pay inequality for these positions.
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- Janice Kendall kendall@adobe.com ...!{decwrl|sun}!adobe!kendall
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- "Creativity overcomes violence."
- John Bradshaw on "Homecoming"
-