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> In response to Tim's remarks concerning why women pursue jobs they know will
> not pay well and why don't they retrain for jobs that will pay better.
>
> Some women are in fact doing exactly that.  If all women in low paying jobs
> retrained for higher paying there would be severe shortages of nurses, 
> secretaries, child care workers, elementary school teachers, homemakers
> and other valuable, necessary occupations.  I think the quality of life would
> drop considerably.  These are valuable occupation and I for one am glad some
> women are willing to work on changing societal structures to better meet their
> needs.
>					Lori Fuller

I don't think the quality of life would drop that much.  I think what
would happen is that these vocations would become more highly valued,
and the workers would be paid more.

		Tom Laidig
		AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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