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less experienced worker get less than the older and
more experienced one, which seems reasonable
enough.
What does not appear to be so reasonable is when
two equally skilled, equally fast workers receive
different rates of pay. In some countries, for
instances, women are paid less than men for the same
work.

The employers' argument in places where this
happens is that men usually have a wife and children
to support and women usually have not. They say the
most women workers are either unmarried and have
no one to support, or have husbands who also work
and bring home money, so that it would be unjust for
them to be paid as much as a man who has a wife
who does not work because she has several children
at home to look after.

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