Letter: Unequal pay rationale unpersuasive
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A recent letter writer shows how little he understand the values of equal pay for women .
When he says that equal pay "handicaps women by destroying their ability to bid down the price of their labor and thus, their ability to compete for jobs," he is telling women that they should willingly accept lower pay than men for the privilege of working.
Why not extend this same privilege to men? Or is it only women who should devalue themselves? Why do we continue to tell women and young girls that they have less value than their male counterparts? Equal pay for equal work not only sounds fair -- it is fair.
Gayle Hirsch, Manorville
