I'm going to be blunt.
If a woman works as hard as man, she damn well deserves the same pay as him. Not every woman is going to have children, so you can't generalise like that. I've just spent 4 years doing my degree and am about to spend another 4 doing my PhD, so after that, I damn well want to get paid as much as my male colleagues!! And it's in chemistry so there's going to be a fair few of them! I worked as hard as them to get that job and work as hard as them at it so I deserve the rewards from that, whether or not I might drop a sprog in the future or not.

And loads of people get paid less than £200 a week, I *live* off less than that a week. Get some perspective.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 4 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)