My Answers to some of the 2nd Debate Questions

Women's Pay Differential is due to many factors.  Seniority may play a big role in thoswe jobs that are unionized.  If a woman chooses to take off 10-15 years to raise a family, she may lose that amount of time in a seniority system.  Moreover, the knowledge needed for everily job changes over time, if the woman has not kept up to date in her field or in her job, she should not be paid the same as a man who has been at work continuously and maintianed his skills and knowledge.  A woman who decides to become a secretary late in life and is never able to master the ability to type fast and  accurately.  Many public employment jobs are based on a merit siystem suich as only the top three scorers on an examination can be considered.  This make sure that the best qualified applicants are the ones who get hired and avoids, to some extent, political, gender and race considerations.  Generally, I would propose a system in which the variables related to the quality or potential qaulity of work without regard to gender are related to the appropriate pay for each position.  Thus, in the case of a university, variables like number of peer-judged publications, number of prublished articles cited in other articles by different authors, seniority, rank, student evaluations, awards and honors.  This may or may not close the gap between male and female pay for those in the same  type of job but it will help to explain why such a gap may exist.