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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Allstate Insurance says women don't deserve equal pay with men
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 19:11:54 EDT
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Re: lower insurance rates for women.

This is mixing apples and oranges.  I've not heard any reasonable
evidence that women don't work as hard or as well as men.  But there
is an enormous body of statistical evidence that women are safer
drivers.

However, if it is correct for insurance companies to charge women less because
they are safer drivers, isn't it logically consistent to charge them
more for retirement insurance because they live longer?  Both forms
of discrimination are based on statistical properties, and are done
to equalize the cost-vs.-payout ratio for a given group.

I disagree strongly with either practice.  But I think the connection
between them should be noted.

		-Ed Hall
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