At 9:33 AM 1/25/96, Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug brought up the fact that womens' wages have been rising. I think >that some complex compositional factors effects are going on. In particular, >how much of it involves relatively high wage professional women coming in as >a second wage earner? What would womens' wages be if the composition of >the job structure had not changed over the last decade? This is certainly the case; women's wages as a percentage of men's in the same educational/occupational grouping shows nowhere near the kind of catch-up we've seen in the aggregate figures. Still, women's entry into previously all-male professions isn't an insignificant social development. And I brought up the point only to dissent from the view that the restructuring of the labor force has been/will be particularly hard on women. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
