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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: 59 cents and catch-22
Message-ID: <318@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 15:17:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 15:17:03 1983
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I paraphrase:

     "It's not our fault that we don't pay the [colored folk,women] as
     much as the [whites,men] even though it may seem to the casual
     observer that they do the same work.  They just don't have the
     requisite [experience,education,intelligence,enthusiasm,qualifying
     skills,luck(!)] to rise to the appropriate level of authority in
     the company."

It sounds to me like a good catch-all excuse for  a n y t h i n g .  Who
decides what constitutes "authority" and who has what it takes to get it?
The people doing the discriminating, that's who!

To which I might add: any company or indeed any system which "places people
at a disadvantage" because they "enter the job market after taking time off
for child-rearing" is so inherently anti- p e o p l e  that the fact that it
is anti- w o m e n  is secondary.

                                    -- Prentiss Riddle
                                       {ihnp4,ut-ngp}!ut-sally!riddle
                                       riddle@ut-sally.UUCP

(This isn't really a flame at Steve Maurer.  I'm not sure he sees the same
implications in his statements that I do.)