Why did women have to fight for maternity leave if the patriarchy WANTS said women "in the home and out of the workspace"?
Look at them scramble. They were met with facts. Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge, as they like to do with things like these.
Should employers be forced to count time spent on maternity leave as "experience," when setting pay-packets based on experience to help combat the gender pay gap?
It’s no magic bullet, but the above is one thing that I think we should do to help combat the gender pay gap. It’s all very well to talk about “equal pay for equal work,” but, in practice, it’s standard practice for employers to say “salary based on experience.” Where a woman has taken, perhaps, 5 years out of work over, say, an 8 or 9 year period to raise a couple of young children, she will inevitably be at a disadvantage. But if society wants a caregiver at home that has a real stake in the development of the child (and, yes, that could also be the man!) then I think this step may be necessary…. the way it would work is that for anybody who had already started in a given career, the employer would be obliged to count time spent on maternity leave as part of the experience. Example: a woman finishes uni at 21, joins a marketing firm. She works there for 5 years… bu t then, over the next decade has two periods of maternity leave, which total 4 years. When she goes for a job in that same industry, the employer would not be able to discount those four years to justify paying her less than a man with 15 years of experience. What do you think?
What are the differences between gender equality and gender equity?
Let me explain the distinction between Equity and Equality first.Equity is mere equal treatment without any extraneous considerations whileEquality means to be just and fair.You cannot treat a healthy child and malnourished child with equity. Malnourished child deserves to get extra nutritious food and care. That is equality.In similar lines gender equality and gender equity has clear distinction.Treating women on par with males when it comes to property rights, when it comes to job and promotion, when it comes to economic and social independence is gender equity.While providing women with affirmative actions in a patriarchal society, providing them leave accompanied with salary when they are pregnant, providing with prenatal to neonatal to postnatal care, providing better heath care as they are more prone to calcium deficiency in post menopause phase, etc constitute gender equality as males are not prone to these problems.
Question for feminists on male dominated v female dominated careers/college degrees?
This is going to be long but impotant (to me anyway) Why is it that in female dominated areas of college or business such as: teaching, nursing, childcare the reason for the gap in representation of males is considered to be men not applying for jobs or college courses in those field. I do to a large degree agree with this. BUt now we reverse the genders to politics, Sci, Tech and suddenly it all changes. Why is this? Say if a female highschool grad applies for a position in college for Science, engineering, political sci etc.. isn't it illegal for the college to reject her on basis of sex? If her merits usually gradewise are high enough she will get in. Likewise if she then graduated from said college course and applies for a job in that particular carrer that is also illegal for a business to reject her if her merits are highest. Legally only a person with highest merits gets a job. But do you not agree it is the same because women simply are not applying for college course like politics, women are going into liberal arts areas. So does the view of men choosing not to go into female dominated areas not applying to male dominated areas like women are just not applying for male dom positions? It seems like trying to make men look like we're holding women donw but this is highly illegal. If you read this article in swedish colleges you'll read they are thinking of abolitiing gender quotas because women simply are not applying for couses in male dominated fields so only male students are benefiting from the quotas and are sliding into female dominated fields like psychology, teaching etc...: http://www.thelocal.se/24330/20100112/ THis shows women are not applying for male dominated areas. How is this men's fault. Yet When men dont apply for female areas that is our decision not to? thanks
Men and women: Equality?
The men who say "women want equal rights, so that means we get to punch them in the face..." Why are you so insecure and disgruntled that you must cling so desperately to the ONE gender trait that women can never compete with--your strength? And why must you justify using it against us bc of our right to vote, work alone side you for equal pay, etc... Why is everyone okay with racial equality, yet men still want to oppress women in any way they can? It sounds as if you are so enraged that we should seek equality that you delight in holding us down (quite literally) in the only way you still can... Aslo, did you know that companies are hesitant to hire some women of certain ages bc they may get pregnant and leave for a few months. Also, bc women are still expected to be the primary caregivers, when their children are sick, mothers will take those days off. And men make more money bc of the antiquated presumption that they have a family to support...but you don't pay a man with 4 kids more than a man with 2 kids, do you? And now women are expected to contribute financially as well so where's the justification for the higher wages? So tell me, men, where does your animosity stemn from and why do you so eagerly through our "equality" (which we still haven't earned, by the way,) in our faces along with your fists?