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From: jim@ism780.UUCP (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re(2): Equal Work
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 04:28:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 04:28:00 1983
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This may weaken my own arguments and a number of others I tend to
agree with, but I checked with the local N.O.W. office and they said that
the 59% figure, now down to 57%, was determined by the U.S. Department of
Labor, and measures average per capita income for women versus the same for
men.  There is an Equal Pay for Equal Work campaign/movement which quotes
this and other figures, so the confusion is expected and perhaps even
fostered, although considering how many men there are doing menial work,
and the pressure on women to show they can make it in a man's world,
the comparable work number, if it were measurable, might prove to be even
lower.

Jim Balter (decvax!yale-co!ima!jim), Interactive Systems Corp

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