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From: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal pay for comparable worth
Message-ID: <587@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 23:23:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 23:23:21 1985
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Reply-To: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
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	Equal pay for comparable work started out as a cop out to
the issue of women's rights and the ERA. The problem is that it can't
be applied equitably.

	Consider, I went throught college, EE Major, went to 
work and have established a reputation of sorts which is a part
of my working identity. As a woman in a technological field I've
had to contend with, and still do sometimes, a lot of condesention
from men. "Humor her and she'll go away etc."

	How then can some one, anyone, establish what is comparable
to my work and my performance for say a truckdriver or perhaps
more fairly a journeyman electrician?

	In the city in which I live all that is required to obtain
an Electrical contractors liscence is the ability to pass a test on
the local electrical codes, $100.00 and Journeyman status. This
is usually obtained by working for a contractor amd "learning the
ropes of the trade".

	Which has more value? A few years working installing wiring
and electrical systems or years of study, work in several areas
and continuing education all just to almost stay even with the
state of the art. How do you pretend to determine what is comparable.
I can wire a house from blueprints so I should be considerd a 
Journeyman (Journeyperson) Electrician so am I overpaid 
as an information processing specialist or am I underpaid as
an electrician?


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From the mostly vacant environment of  Jeanette L. Zobjeck (ihnp4!wlcrjs!zubbie)

All opinions expressed may not even be my own.
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