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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women
Subject: Re: Yale-Harvard marriage study
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 21:54:22 EDT
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In article <7916@sun.uucp> falk@sun.UUCP writes:
>
>... they decide who quits their career on the basis of whose
>paycheck will be missed the least. ... but it usually turns out
>to be the woman who makes less and therefore stays home. ...
>with the result that she makes even *less* money in the long
>run.

Furthermore, in most (need I say heterosexual?) couples the
woman is younger than the man and hence doubly likely to be
earning less than he.  As I'm sure all racial minorities learned
decades ago, once equality is legislated there are still many
automatic or institutional barriers to its realization.

But I still can't stand to be screamed at for things I didn't
do.
			Matt Crawford

		"If you're not part of the solution ...

			you're part of the precipitate!"