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From: robertp@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
Message-ID: <199@fear.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 12:23:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 12:23:41 1985
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Summary: "Material Girl?"

In article <212@ubvax.UUCP>, tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) writes:

> .... So if one is looking
> > for a "culprit" for the earnings gap, it is far more plausible to pin the
> > blame on *marital status* than on *gender*."
> > 
> 
> The differences are between married women and single women, but is the
> cause of those differences the choices women make or the job market that
> chooses predicated on those choices?  Well, depends on your politics.  If
> you believe that married and single people should be treated equally by
> the job market, then you would blame the job market.  If you don't, then
> maybe you will blame the choices and those women who made the wrong choice,
						   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> marriage.  The question of plausibility has to do with social and moral
  ^^^^^^^^
> goals, not with statistics.

Tsk, tsk.  Materialistic, aren't we?  Maybe we can tie all of these
"money uber alles" arguments with the ongoing Madonna controversy, and
the unsuitability of the "Material Girl" video to pliable Yuppie
minds.
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		-- Robert Plamondon
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