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Subject:Re: This year's salary survey-same old same old From:"T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:38:11 -0500
Is it "PC" to say, get a sex change, and then grin, duck, and run,
very, very fast?
I get paid less than my female coworker. (I'm a guy; or, at least, I
play one on the Web.) She's more experienced and also has a bigger,
more pertinent toolset than I.
So, based on the STC salary survey and numbers of each gender in the
profession, I cannot tell if women are being undervalued based on
their sex. I need to know more about the jobs of the respondents.
Equal skill, experience, training, education, and contribution should
unquestionably get equal pay. I don't see that the STC salary survey
measures those things.
Even so, maybe it's not that women get paid less because of gender,
maybe shorter technical writers get paid less, so taller women get
more money and shorter men get paid less, but because men are
generally taller than women, it looks like gender is the filter?
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:37:10 -0500, TechComm Dood
<techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> As a manager, it's a shame to see it still happening. I compensate
> based on performance and value returned to the company. Sex, race, and
> other such non-work-related stuff do not enter the salary equation.
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:36:50 -0500, lyndsey -dot- amott -at- docsymmetry -dot- com
> <lyndsey -dot- amott -at- docsymmetry -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > I have just seen this year's STC salary survey and am dismayed to see that,
> > yet again, men make more $$ than women despite the fact that women outnumber
> > men by about two to one. What are your comments about this situation? How
> > can we fix it? I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are
> > managers.
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T.
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