Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site digi-g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!digi-g!brian From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Brian Westley) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.women Subject: Re: Allstate Insurance says women don't deserve equal pay with men Message-ID: <169@digi-g.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-May-84 10:28:39 EDT Article-I.D.: digi-g.169 Posted: Fri May 18 10:28:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 19-May-84 06:59:57 EDT References: <621@pyuxqq.UUCP> Organization: DigiGraphic Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 10 Insurance companies have always been run by jerks. Right now a big issue about retirement funds (a lot of which are handled by insurance companies) is equal retirement pay. They argue that: since women (on the average) live longer than men, their retirement pay should be lower so the average total pay is equal. Similar 'adjustments' in retirement & insurance rates based on race were outlawed years ago. I'm surprised that fat men that drink & smoke too much don't get higher retirement benifits, on the rationale that they will be dead sooner. Merlyn Leroy