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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (75753)	6/28/2011 7:09:50 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218646

It's not really logically based to make blanket assumptions about women, any more than it is to make blanket assumptions about Negroes, homosexuals, short people, tall people, men or other groups. All that can known for sure about the group is the defining characteristics and even those can be tricky on the edges of the definition [such as whether a man is a woman for the purposes of athletics] and just how homosexual does a woman have to be to fit the category. Employers can probably do well out of hiring women because they are supposedly available at a lower price for equal talent and production. All that's needed is management - such as paying in stock options with the payout made if contract terms are met, such as attendance for a set number of years. If the woman gets pregnant, she would forfeit the shares. Similarly for a man - if he doesn't show up for some reason, he loses his stock options. Employers make blanket assumptions about people and thereby mismanage their business "Women get pregnant and stop working" is one such blanket assumption. Some do. Some men get cancer and stop working too. Adjusting employment contracts for such risk is part of managing a business well. Unfortunately, governments like to ruin things, so they make laws which say you legally have to be sexist and racist and generally stupid, forcing employers into absurd contracts which result in harm to those supposedly protected. Mqurice