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To: caww
The idea of equal pay is good though..but based on preformance not because you're just doing the same job.

Exactly! I remember back in the '70s every TV show pushed "women's lib." I recall an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where she asked her boss for a raise and he said no. Mary pointed out that a male coworker did the same job she did and got paid more, and the boss replied, "Well, that's different, he has a family to support." Back then, you could get away with paying women less on the assumption that they "didn't have a family to support." We all saw things like that on TV and thought, "How unfair." So we all became "feminists." It seemed like simple common sense back then...equal pay for equal work. But it turned into something so much bigger and uglier! When I see feminists on TV now, they only seem to care about two things...abortion and gay rights. They seem so angry and hateful, too. I don't think they speak for most women.

83 posted on 08/17/2010 11:02:56 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Nea Wood

Yes, I remember as a teen thinking it made sense for people to be paid the same for the same work. However, it didn’t take long for it to become clear that the real agenda of the feminist movement was legalizing abortion on demand. That’s when they completely lost me.


117 posted on 08/17/2010 11:28:59 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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