June 19, 2012 by Special to Financial Post in FP Comment, FP Letters to the Editor, Junk Science Week 2012, pay equity
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FP Letters to the Editor: Junk attitudes toward women

Re: “Pay equity ‘scientism,’ ” William Watson, Junk Science Week, June 15 The millions of Canadian women being paid less than men doing work of equal value share little of William Watson’s faith in the free market’s ability to address pay equity. Behind the condescending attempts at being clever, Prof.

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June 15, 2012 by William Watson in CUPE, equality, FP Comment, Junk Science Week 2012, pay equity, unions
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Junk Science Week: Pay equity ‘scientism’

CUPE aims to expand the junk science of comparing wages The front page of Tuesday’s National Post brought rare and heartening news of a defeat in Ontario Superior Court for what, in a perversion of language, is widely called “pay equity.” George Orwell instructed us on the power of language

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