Ok.... I see where you are coming from. But another truth. If the market has set a price for a man and a woman and then you say the women are now the same, they have just given up their bargaining chip in getting a job. The employer will just hire men as there is no precieved gain in doing otherwise. I don't personally feel this way but that's how the "free market" or whatever you call it will respond. Hate it or not.