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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Danger Mouse)
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Subject: Re: That's right: the women ARE smarter
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 09:03:53 EDT
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-> Cheryl Stewert (Hi Cheryl)

->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.

If you didn't want this to sound like a personal attack, you could have
been less specific about the two people.  Netter "A" and netter "B", for
instance, or perhaps you could have reversed the male and female roles.
(Role reversal...what a revolutionary idea! (:-))  Anyway, I won't let
my "male ego" (:-) get in the way and attack you...

The definition of underemployed I was using applies to a group of
people, not an individual person (This is the only way I've heard
the word used, and thus felt no NEED to look it up).  I thought it meant 
a lower percentage of a given (perhaps arbitrary) group is
employed relative to the population as a whole.  Thus, women,
making up 50% of the population, do not make up 50% of the work
force.  Therefore women, as a group, are underemployed.

I have since looked it up, and found the following:

Underemployed: having less than full-time, regular, or adequate employment.
[From Webster's Ninth New College Dictionary]

I see that this is probably closer to (or at least includes) your definition.
Thanks for the education.

When a person works at a job below his/her capabilities, I term that
as OVERQUALIFIED.


->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.  

While I now see and acknowledge the truth in the above idea, 
I've seen fairer and more truthful generalizations.  I DON'T want to
get into a run-on discussion on generalizations, however.  And for the
record, I've been guilty of worse generalizations myself.

			Scott

->There's one kind of favor I'll ask of you: 

->  Just see that my grave is kept clean.

Sorry, I don't do graves (:-)