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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Equal Pay For Work of Equal Value is a serious blow to Women
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 12:46:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 12:46:17 1985
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> Well, the Ontario Government announced today that it would soon be
> bringing in EPFWOEV legislation in the public sector...
> 
> But the Feminist lobby that worked for this was not satisfied.
> They wanted to know when the law would come into the private sector...
> 
> They should curse the day such legislation comes.
> 
> Let's say a secretary makes on average $13K.  But the wage police
> say that such a secretary should make $16K.  Where does this $3K
> come from?  As an employer, I know.  It means that I will wait longer
> to hire a secretary.  If I were a big business, it would mean fewer
> secretaries in general.  You will have to be higher up before you
> rate a private secretary.
> 
> The result - even fewer jobs for secretaries.  Sad to say because of
> sex sterotypes this also means fewer jobs for women...

> Ideology has little to do with it.  It's facts and numbers, plain
> and simple.
> 
> Brad Templeton

I'd love to see either the public or private sectors try to make do
with substantially fewer secretaries--the whole fabric of business
would fall apart.  I'd also love to see this endless piddle of
simplistic libertarian dogma--submitted entirely by oh so rational
men--the hell out of net.women.  You've made your point, guys--now
go beat each other up somewhere else.
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