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2012: When I was in France, the farmers used to pay us for
peeling garlic by the kilo. 10 centimes for one kilo. The
Moroccan women were the best by far...outpeeling the Europeans
by 3 times the amount in the same time. Consequently, they were
paid three times more. If a male coalminer gets 3 tonnes of coal
to the surface in the same time that a female miner gets 2
tonnes of coal to the surface, should they be paid the same
amount? I have no doubt that the men and the women have made the
same amount of physical effort and worked for the same time, but
the simple fact of the matter is that the man has produced a
third more. Shouldn't he, like the Moroccan women, be
compensated for his work? This is a practical question which
people all too readily avoid discussing. Plea