Statistics Time!

"Despite Massachusetts' historic leadership on pay equity--in 1945 it became the first state to require equal pay for comparable work--the gap between men's and women's salaries here is now among the biggest in the country."--Boston Globe, Dec. 10

For those who don't understand how this is possible, consider a very simple situation with 100 weremen and 100 women and two jobs: Customer Service
Rep and Chemical Engineer, and absolute equality in pay.  

...............................Weremen.....................WomenCSR @500..............30 =15,000..................70 = 35,000Chem Eng @900.....70 = 63,000..................30 = 27,000Total.....................100 =78,000..................100=62,000And women make only 0.79 for every dollar made by a wereman, even though both get paid exactly the same salary for each job.  

Now allow for the fact that some proportion of women will choose the vocation of motherhood and homemaking over salaryman. 

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