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To: tejek who wrote (2320)	11/17/2003 11:13:48 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

A number of studies show that women make less money than men who work the same job. Most of this disparity goes away if you control for education and experience. The article you quote doesn't focus on the same jobs but on the fact that women and men working different jobs get paid different amounts of money. We must ask why society values accountants more than social workers, for example. We must revalue jobs performed by women (and entice more men into them) as well as move women into male-dominated jobs. The pay rates for jobs are determined by supply and demand , not by how much society values people working a particular job. If you took a poll you would probably find overwhelming support for the idea that teachers are more important then lawyers, but lawyers make more money. The poll would also show that doctors are considered more important to society then all-star level Major League shortstops. Why? Because there is a larger supply of people with the skills to be a doctor, even the skills to be a very good doctor. Also because their is a lot of demand for people with those skills because they can help a base ball team earn tens of millions of dollars. Few doctors can bring in so much money. But would you even get 1% of people in the country who would say its better to do without doctors then to do without top shortstops, or even to do without Baseball? The Fair Pay Act would prohibit wage discrimination based on sex, race and national origin by requiring employers to provide equal pay for work of equal value, whether or not the jobs are the same. Having wages controlled by beaurocrats who determine what value work has would be an unmitigated disaster. Tim