--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > If this doesn't sound terribly equal, nor, for
> that matter,
> > loaded with exciting opportunity, don't blame the
> commission.
> > All it did was assign the survey, which was
> undertaken by the
> > Future Foundation, and contains a wonderfully
> mysterious
> > quote from a Young Southern Woman: "Every time I
> think of
> > feminism, I just get this really awful feeling."
> And that's
> > all there is to explain the absurd claim that
> women "choose"
> > lower pay for the same work - to complain about it
> would be
> > feminism, which is kind of icky.
>
>
> Three points:
>
> 1. Pay inequality does involve a choice women make,
> albeit it is not the
> only factor invilved. Women tend to seek and
> accept lower paying job
> because they tend to scale their aspirations to what
> they perceive as
> more attainable. Of course, employers also tend to
> scale their pay
> schedule to the gender of the job holder. Barbara
> Reskin and Patricial
> Roos (_Jobs queues, gender queues_) call that
> process "queuing" i.e.
> both job apllicants and employers 'queue" or
> rank-order jobs and then
> match them with the perceived "fit" of different
> types of applicants
> (e.g. job A may be seen as much better than job B, a
> female applicant
> see herself as more "fit" for job B because she
> perceives she has more
> chance to get the job B than the job A, and th
> eemployer sees female
> candidates as better "fit" for job B because of
> sexist stereotypes).
>
> 2. Feminism got discredited when it put the bread
> and butter demands
> (cf. equal pay, equal opportunity, health care,
> abuse victim protection)
> into wacky lit crit.
>
> 3. A lot of women my daughter's age take the
> Camille Paglia's approach
> to feminism (the reason her book is still on my
> shelf is that I do not
> have a fireplace where this trash can be properly
> burned) - as a denial
> of female sex appeal - and openly embrace the most
> outragegously sexist
> symbols like the playboy bunny or the hooters for
> the fear of being
> "unpopular". Nauseating.
>
> Wojtek
>
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