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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
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- Subject: differing wages (was Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?)
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- Date: 8 Nov 92 17:13:31 GMT
- References: <Bx9HM4.I5y@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov6.150355.9849@rtf.bt.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov6.150355.9849@rtf.bt.co.uk> fletcher@rtf.bt.co.uk (Catherine Fletcher) writes:
- >1. Doubt (by the word "if") one of the few statistics that it is safe to
- > "believe" because the information it contains is straightforward
- > and easy to obtain from accurate and diverse sources.
- ---
- But the statistic is meaningless. It ignores factors of
- seniority, job type and hours worked/week. I might as well say something
- along the lines of 'did you know people under the age of 18 get an
- average of 20 cents to every dollar an adult gets' and then try to
- use this as some meaningful statistic on how minors are discriminated
- against. Plugh!
-
- -wat-
- --
- --- "If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same
- work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at
- any level?" -- Dr. Warren Farrell
-