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From: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics
Message-ID: <411@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 17:12:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 17:12:20 1985
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Reply-To: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <2942@sdcc3.UUCP> valerie@sdcc3.UUCP (Valerie Polichar) writes:
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>Mr. Ngai wondered whether a woman would marry a man whose income was less
>than hers; can't speak for marriage since mine is still a year or two off,
>but would like to share my opinion.  My chosen field is going to be
>bringing me $30K right after graduation.  Carl's salary will start at more
>like $20K and won't grow as high or as fast as mine.  We're both doing
>what we want to do, so what difference does it make?  I don't care whether
>or not I'm the principle breadwinner; we're both working hard, right?
>If Carl lost his job I would feel no particular qualms about supporting
>the two of us, nor vice versa.  Carl doesn't feel his masculinity
>threatened by my earning more money, nor his intelligence insulted, since
>his work is far more specialized and intellectual than mine.  I never
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>really thought too much about it until you brought it up; growing up with
>freedoms you take them for granted, I guess!

But what about if he had to do menial, mind draining work ( you know,
like the filing clerk and secretarial work that many of my female-college
graduate friends try to put up with ?)

Do you think your relationship would survive this?

--ICONOCLAST