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       BUTTON 
     
     WHEN You GRADUATE 
     
     nus SPRING? 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada has one-of the finest 
     
     educational systems in the world. But 
     
     many Canadian employers unjustifi- 
     
     ably underpay some very well- 
     
     educated graduates of that system. 
     
     Women. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     A 24-year-old male-leaving uni- - 
     
    
   
   
    
     versity with a degree, earns on the 
     
     average 19 per cent more in his first 
     
     job than a woman of the same age I 
     
     with the same degree. A male high- 
     
     school graduate can expect an average 
     
     34.2 per cent more than the equiv- 
     
     alent female graduate. It just isn’t 
     
     right. 
     
    

    
     It just isn’t right, either, that 
     
     long before graduation, some schools 
     
     still insist on channelling girls into 
     
     home economics classes and boys 
     
     into industrial arts. 
     
    

    
     Some girls make excellent me- 
     
     chanics and engineers. Some boys 
     
     make excellent designers and chefs. 
     
     Why curb their natural talents? 
     
    

    
     There is no logical reason why 
     
     we should. Equal educational op- 
     
     portunities are guaranteed us under 
     
     law, but there are prejudices and prec- 
     
     edents. Society expects women to 
     
     cook and sew because it expects them 
     
     to get married one day. Don’t men 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     WHY 
     
    
   
   
    
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     get manied too? Maybe they should 
     
     learn household skills as well. 
     
    

    
     When it comes to employment, 
     
     the same kind of archaic thinking 
     
     brings us less pay and recognition. 
     
     Certainly women get married, but 
     
     many keep on working. Of some three 
     
     million women working in Canada 
     
     today, more than 50 per cent are 
     
     married. Why are they being paid less 
     
     than their husbands? Because they are 
     
     married? How about a single working 
     
     woman? It costs her as much to live 
     
     as a single working man. So why is \ 
     
     she also being forced to live on less? 
     
     Particularly when 50.0 per cent of all 
     
     Canadian women in the labour force, 
     
     having completed their high—school 
     
     education, have gone on to take 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     post-secondary training, compared to 
     
     39.3 per cent of the men. So no one 
     
     can use the excuse that working 
     
     women are less qualified. 
     
    

    
     The entire situation must change. 
     
     But if it is to change, we have to 
     
     start thinking of ourselves as equals. 
     
     And demanding that others do, too. 
     
     We have to teach our children to 
     
     think differently. Because they are 
     
     the next generation of educators and 
     
     homemakers, employers and em- 
     
     ployees. We must break down the 
     
     barriers of prejudice for ourselves 
     
     and remoVe them entirely for our 
     
     children. . 
     
    

    
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