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From: eich@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: 59 cents - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 23:37:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 23:37:50 1983
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uiuccsb!eich    Sep 22 18:38:00 1983


But under the 1965 Civil Rights Act as amended, women have a legal right
to equal pay for the same job (note same job rather than "equal work").
The lumpen-statistics show only the differences owing to the low female
union membership, training/education differences (for various reasons),
a turnover rate 10-12 times higher than the male rate, etc.  These figures
provide no ground for concluding that active discrimination, especially
by one employer paying a man more than a woman for the same job, is the
cause.  That may indeed be a factor, but it must be demonstrated by more
specific evidence (perhaps suits filed under the current statutes?)