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From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 11:24:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 11:24:48 1985
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I feel very strongly that women and men's pay should
be equal if the job and the performance is equal.
In many cases it is possible to look at a job description
and find that the (female) senior clerk and the (male)
assistant manager are doing the same job. Not only should
the pay then be equal, but the titles should be the same as well

It could also be argued that the person who empties the waste
paper baskets and the person that collects the garbage on the
street have jobs of comparable difficulty. There are large pay
differences however. The working environment of
the garbage collector may be less pleasant, but is that worth
the large difference in pay?

What about engineers? An computer science engineer is paid more
than a chemical engineer. These jobs certainly are comparable.

The difficulty in solving the unequal pay issue for women, which
certainly exists as evidenced by unequal pay in even the same
job classifications, is well confounded with the question
of hat a job is worth at all.

I would not want anyone to take this as a reason for not
trying to solve the unequal pay issue, but to keep in mind
that that unwillingness to work on the problem is also
related to the absolute job worth issue.

Herman Silbiger