by Smartie Pants

Created on: May 24, 2007

NO, but they should. The market place teaches the truth. If a company pays men more than women based on a unfair bias, then they will suffer by their own lack of judgment, just as any company would making any decision based on an unreal prejudice, because they were black or gay or anything that doesn't have to do with job performance.

We should learn from the mistakes of the past. EOE (Equal Opportunity Employment) had it's heart in the right place, but it did more to harm "race relations" than to help them. Hard feelings from the people unprotected towards the protected people,

Wrong hiring practices based on quotas, not abilities. No real ability for the "minority" to say "I did it" when in fact they may have.

I admit that I hate the idea of joining sides by default of all the bigots and sexists. I abhor them (although I have to admit that being a sexist sounded like fun until I found out what it meant). It is a new world with changing demographics and maybe, just maybe, those wrong thinking, fearful people will be forced to learn a truth or too.

Companies should hire and reward the skill. If most men are better at a skill than most women, let it be lopsided, vice versa also. Sometimes you just got to let logic rule your decisions.

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