fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin) (06/21/85)
References: > == Tony (Regarding the effect of marriage on women's salaries:) >Men make the same choice of marriage, and it doesn't contribute to their >earnings gap. Isn't that a difference we can call discriminatory, if >our goal is to make married partners share equally in the burdens of life? Tell us, Tony, exactly how you would "make married partners share equally in the burdens of life". I'd like to hear, in as much detail as you care to provide, the mechanisms you would employ, the political methods you would choose, the laws you would pass, and so forth. >Evidence required for social policy can be less than proof and still be >of great value. Indicative rather than inferential statistics is often >all anyone has to determine any policy. Thanks, Tony, for pointing out the impossibly shaky foundations on which so much of our social policy is based. Perhaps the actions of members of a society are not something to be toyed with through the mechanism of "social policy", but instead ought to be regarded within a framework of individual rights... >Tony Wuersch >{amd,amdcad}!cae780!ubvax!tonyw --Barry Fagin (fagin@berkeley) -- Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley