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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 16:29:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 16:29:16 1985
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> In article <2306@randvax.UUCP> edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes:
>     	Women's wages are lower because of social institutions, not because
>     	of supply and demand.  How else do you explain the fact that a
>     	female-dominated occupation such as nursing, ...  is paid so much
>     	less than a male-dominated occupation such as truck-driving?
> 
There is also the effect that unionization has had on primarily "male"
jobs, something that has been very difficult to spread to "female" jobs.
For example, attempts to get halfway reasonable wages for J. P. Stevens
clothes factory workers did not succeed until only the  very recent past,
largely due to the fact that most of the workers were women, who were a
secondary source of income to their families.  The social institutions
also played a large part there, but I would be interested if anyone has
heard of pink-collar strikes and their results.
Nemo