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From: gazit@lear.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: how to bash feminism without really trying
Summary: If the facts don't fit your assumption then your assumptions are wrong.
Keywords: What you *DO* is what you are.
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Date: 24 Oct 89 15:25:01 GMT
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# When you have several people with similar qualification,
# hire the one with the *lowest* current income.  [Hillel Gazit]

In article <1191@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Losen) writes:

>Since women's salaries are lower on average, wouldn't this be a form of
>AA for women? :-)

If you accept the feminist claims that most women earn less than a man
with the same qualification then the above offer should be ideal for them. 
A non-sexist AA that gives them all the AA advantages without to carry
any blame for being sexist.

For some reason feminists (at least on the net) don't like the idea.
Can you guess why?

>I'm sure it has escaped no one's notice how salary history can
>perpetuate the gender gap in salaries.  

The statistics that I posted to soc.men (source U.S. News) show that the
*percentage* gap in the top professions (doctors, lawyer) goes *up*.

Try to explain how that happened in ten years of heavy AA.

Hillel                                           gazit@cs.duke.edu

"There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over."