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To: tejek who wrote (2350)	11/20/2003 2:16:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 7936

You're funny. Show me those studies where the disparity between men and women goes away when you "condition for education and experience". You should have quoted that part of my statement before you asked for the study. It would have made your meaning clearer. Unfortunately if a study has not been in the news lately its not easy to find the information from it and I'm not going to search all day or maybe several days to find all the information out there but a quick search found some useful links. I'll put them in to a reply to this post to avoid cluttering up this message. People are willing to watch teachers teach......the demand is huge but the supply low and yet the salaries are low. Demand is money, not numbers of people. Even considering that the demand for teachers overall if more then the demand for ball players overall. That's why all teachers put together make more then all Major League baseball players put together. But the supply of teachers is thousands of times the supply of major league caliber ball players. If there where less then a thousand people capable of even being barely adequate teachers then those people could demand and get huge salaries. Baseball gets billons of dollars while education gets hundreds of billions but there are hundreds of Major League Baseball players and millions of teachers. So the overall demand for teachers might be hundreds of times the demand for Major League Baseball players but the supply of teachers is maybe ten thousand times larger. The average teacher does make well above the average person in the US but he or she probably makes less the average person with the same level of education and experience. aolcom.factmonster.com magma.ca That's true to a degree but the controls over the supply is what causes the problem and not the level of the demand. Directors are afraid to try out new talent for fear that people won't like them. If directors are afraid to try out new people that means that the supply is limited. The demand is primarily for people with a proven track record or at least people about whom a lot of "buzz" has been generated. Supply of something that isn't demanded is not very meaningful supply. Appearance has nothing to do with demand. It has to do with cultural bias. Cultural bias might be the reason it effects demand, but whatever the reason some people are more in demand then others. A good looking accountant doing bookkeeping in a back office will not make demand go up because of her appearance. However, her appearance is pleasing to the eye so she gets extra pay for it. The demand I'm referring to is the demand for her services. Since she is good looking there is more demand for her services so she might get paid more or at least get hired quicker. "I am not a bureaucrat but in any case I was not slamming bureaucrats." You work for a large corporation, don't you? Yes but its more technical work the bureaucratic work. In any case the important point is that I'm not slamming bureaucrats. I'm not saying that they are stupid, or that they are incompetent compared to everyone else. I am saying that neither they, nor anyone else is competent to control the economy to the extent that you suggest they should. Even if they could do so it would be tyrannical and unjust but they can't do it right, no one can. Tim

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