RE: Techwriters of the World: Unite!

[edunn -at- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

Care to give the industries involved, the time period,  the percentage drop in
pay, and how the increase in productivity was measured? Were any other reasons
for the drop in pay explored?
While I don't want to start a political debate on list,
unsupported/unsubstantiated arguments like this do nothing to help.


Eric L. Dunn


Lower pay rates may be a result of a demographic
change in the field. In at least 3 other professions,
both pay and prestige dropped sharply when women moved
into the jobs and men moved out. In at least one of
these cases, the women did the job measurably better
than the men. Nevertheless, the pay rate dropped.

C. Crowley




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