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by HombreVIII on 06:47 PM January 12th, 2005 EST (#1)
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I wonder why the modelling and pornography industries weren't mentioned? The men in those industries are paid far less than their female counterparts. Also, men tend to fair worse in tipped professions like waitoring.
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by Gregory on 10:21 PM January 12th, 2005 EST (#2)
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I haven't read Warren Farrell's latest book, but I plan to during the next month or so. The info about the higher paid women in the engineering and computer fields got me to thinking. Does this reflect the market at work? Are women engineers in higher demand than their male counterparts (because companies, universities, government, etc are eager to have female engineers in their employ)? Since there are more male engineering grads than female grads, wouldn't the females enjoy a higher starting salary? Maybe this applies also to the other professions mentioned. Women are in higher demand, so they command bigger starting salaries.
My question would be this: in a field like nursing, where women grads overwhelmingly outnumber male nursing grads, are the women paid higher starting salaries than male grads with comparable qualifications?
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by Anonymous User on 11:59 PM January 18th, 2005 EST (#3)
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Actually, yes, female engineer, computer programmers, etc are in higher demand because, according to a friend of mine whose roommate was a female computer science major, the companies don't want to look sexist in their hiring practices but since there are so many fewer women applying for positions they get better offers.
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It's time men started filing a load of anti-discrimination law suits. The fact is: Men deserve equal pay for equal work. In this