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From: dhw@iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: equal pay interesting statistic
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Date: 7 Dec 90 05:12:50 GMT
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In article <93640@aerospace.AERO.ORG> baranski@meridn.enet.dec.com writes:
>I heard an interesting statistic on the radio the other day.
>While women in general make ~$.69 for every ~$1.00 that men make, on the same
>scale, married men make ~$1.30, and single women make ~$1.10...
>So, it looks like the disadvantaged are married women and single men...

I hypothesize that for men the single/married difference would become
much less significant if one controlled for age (married people tend to 
be older, and hence more advanced in their careers), and that for women
the single/married difference would become much less significant if
one controlled for the type of job and fraction of nominal full-time
worked (often, married women feel free to be less zealous in maximizing
their job-related income than do single women or men in general).

-David West      dhw@iti.org