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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Reply to Sykora
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:39:00 EDT
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>/* ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) /  1:21 pm  May 31, 1985 */

>A study just released by a group at Stanford shows that women in technical
>fields make less than men, and hold fewer management positions, by *more*
>than the natinal average.  In other words, discrimination in the high-tech
>world is worse.

A conclusion as to whether or not there is more discrimination in the
high-tech world than in other fields, or, for that matter, whether or not
there is a significant amount of discrimination in the high-tech world at
all, cannot be determined merely from the evidence cited above.

> . . .  If we stop actively striving for
>equality, then we'll surely degenerate back to where we were - maybe
>as far back as the early 19th century and beyond.  Remember those times
>from your history lessons (you *did* study basic history in school,
>didn't you) when people were actually *bought and sold*?  I sure don't
>want to go back there, nor, I suspect, do you.

Perhaps you can explain to those of us who slept thru history class
how an employers' using factors other than employees' performance,
ability, etc. (e.g., race, religion, sex, shoe size, etc.) will lead
to slavery.

>Ed Gould		    mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA

						Mike Sykora