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From: ag1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz)
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Subject: Re: equal pay interesting statistic
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Jim Baranski states: 
 
]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...

This definately sounds like an untrustworthy statistic.  Did the
surveyors include women working in the home?  Was the work separated
into averages for the same job?  Married women may not be
disadvantaged if they are only supplementing their husbands' income.
Married women may be going for less ambitious jobs because their
husband is the primary bread winner.  On that same line of thought
married men may be thinking of the future of thier families and
working more than one job or simply applying for and getting the
higher paying jobs in our society.  It's highly probable that what
looks like discrimination between married men and women is in
actualality errors in the survey.

Again, not much can be said for the difference between single women
and men.  If this comparison is not made on the basis of equal pay for
equal jobs then it is basically useless.

Andrea Gansley-Ortiz