CreativeBlock
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With all due respect, poppy****. (really? I wasn't cursing, I assure you all!!)People are paid what they are WORTH in most cases and it has nothing to do with male or female.
There are many surveys, non-gender-biased ones at that, that disagree with that statement.
Women in my husband's field (engineering) get paid .97 cents to a man's dollar. In as many as 5 years ago, a woman in the engineering field would have made only roughly .87 cents to a man's dollar. So while the salary is more commiserate now, it still isn't equal.
As for the legal aspect, women no longer have as much occupational preferential treatment as do minorities. A woman owned 8(a) company is less likely to get a contract as a minority owned 8(a) company.
Personally, while I do believe that everyone ~ minority, male, female, et al ~ deserves a fair shake in getting contracts and/or jobs, I do tend to side against the concept of 8(a) classifications. Hiring and contracting should be based on capability, not ethnicity or gender.