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Entries  28th-Apr-2009 10:47 am - Lying our way to equality?
When I was little, my mom and I would sit down and talk about
what I would do when I grew up.  She would look at me with that
jealousy-free envy only family can muster, and tell me how lucky
I was to be able to choose absolutely anything I wanted.  She
would speculate about what career she would have gone into if
she had a choice.  Maybe a chiropractor, or a doctor?  She
always knew she wanted a career, but was given two choices:
nurse, or teacher.  She's still teaching, and so are many of her
peers.  Their salaries are still being counted into the figures
of what men vs. women earn.  Now I'm sure some of you are going
to argue with me that these professions should be as highly paid
as a physician or CEO, but at the end of the day, that is a
different debate. They're not being paid less because they're
women, they're being paid less because they have different jobs:
jobs that don't bring mone