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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.social,net.politics
Subject: That's right: the women ARE smarter
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 17:09:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 17:09:43 1985
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In article <513@hou2g.UUCP=> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Danger Mouse) writes:
=>Cheryl Stewart:
=>
=>[...many valid assumptions about equality of innate skills among all people...]
=>
=>
=>->  There being an equal distribution of natural endowment in both sexes
=>->  and all races, and there being a disproportionately low number of 
=>->  minorities and women utilizing these natural endowments in their
=>                                                            ^^ ^^^^^
=>->  work, simple logic would have it that a disproportionately high
=>    ^^^^
=>->  number of minorities and women are undereducated and underemployed
=>->  given their level of natural endowment.  
=>
=>I fail to see how women and minorities WHO WORK are underemployed.  Under-
=>educated, probably, but by my definition, people who are underemployed
=>don't have jobs.

WRONG.  People who are underemployed are working at jobs which do not take 
best advantage of their skills and natural abilities.  A Ph.D. in philosophy
who drives a bus is underemployed.  He or she is probably smarter than most
of his or her coworkers.  If there is an equal distribution of brains between
men and women, and men typically have the better jobs, then it follows 
logically that a man can get farther with less brains.  It then follows, 
if men get farther with less brains, that between a man and woman who
have both gone the same distance, the woman probably is smarter.  

Take two netters, for instance, one male and one female.  The woman writes
an article containing a reasonable, logical argument.  The man fails to 
understand it, perhaps because he has been culturally deprived (nobody ever
taught him how to look up words in a dictionary), perhaps because he has
been poorly socialized (where he comes from, nobody is expected to read things
carefully before forming an opinion), or possibly because he is innately in-
capable of thinking logically.

This is not a personal attack, Scott; it is intended to illustrate the kind
of harsh, unfair treatment women face when--just trying to support themselves.

                                    Cheryl Stewart

   
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