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Subject:Re[2]: Gender and tech writing From:"Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:27:26 -0500
This:
the mean salary for females is 45,370, while the mean for males is
49,210.
Was in answer to this:
women are now making $0.72 for every male dollar.
I do some number-crunching and get:
$.92 for every male dollar. (Though how we can tell which of the dollars
are males, I haven't yet determined.) I haven't looked at the methodology
of the survey but I would suspect that this number is not significantly
different from parity (meaning the probable error in the survey -- the
difference between its numbers and reality -- is quite likely greater than
10%).
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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