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Dee Flint wrote:

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Also there is a difference in what defines a
desireable location. A higher percentage of the men will look at a
facility
in a rural location and say "now I can go fishing more often."

I'd like to be there when some lady engineer/ham lusts for a nice quiet
antenna location out in the boonies and is married to some city boy . .


Well I'm a lady engineer/ham who lusts for a nice, quiet antenna farm in the
country and am married to a city boy. However, he's also a ham and happens
to like the quietness of the rural areas. But the work is in the cities.
Oh there's some engineering jobs in rural areas and I used to take those.
But then when the company cuts back, you are automatically slated to move
when you find a new position as it sure isn't going to be in that rural area
where you worked at the only firm using engineers. Moving every 5 years or
so got old fast.


There's
probably a whole raft of reasons having nothing to do with discrimination
that contribute to the disparity.

Indeed: The code has been cracked.

w3rv

That is my opinion too. There's another factor that crops up. Women do not
like to just arbitrarily change jobs in search of higher pay or a promotion.
They prefer stability. So they seek out and stay with those firms that seem
to fit that bill. There's been some sort of study that I read somewhere on
that. The end result is that they rise up the wage scale and promotion
scale more slowly. The men who get ahead rapidly are usually those who make
judicious job changes every 5 years or so in the early years of their
careers.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE