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  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
    But what of conscious and unconscious bias that leads to women being overlooked for appointments and promotions?

    What of inflexible working that makes it hard for women to have a family and maintain a career?

    What of the large numbers of women who report feeling discriminated against in the workplace for having a baby?

    What of the entrenched patriarchal norms that mean only 1% of men have bothered taking advantage of new shared parental leave?

    What of women being reluctant to take on lucrative nighttime shift-work due to legitimate fears about their safety?

    What of society's continued under-appreciation of essential but low-paid 'caring' jobs that are disproportionately made up of a female workforce (because of gender norms)?
    All *******s, in the main. THe promotions and appointments argument falls flat on its face where I work. 8 out of ten internal promotions are women and we have entire departments that havent hired a man in five years. THey make up 75% of our Corporate Management Team.

    When they want to start a family they get a year off, full pay, and even accrueannual ****ing leave whilst on maternity leave! When they finally comeback they get whatever they want in terms of flexible working/working from home etc. Trust me, when a woman wants to start a family the first thing she does is get herself a job here. THey are also immune from the sack or redundancy whilst on maternity leave.

    Of course, they all complain about discrimination but its rubbish. Not a single case you could point to here.

    There could potentially be an issue with the grading of some of the lowest paid jobs, where secretarial work is graded lower than unskilled manual work despite both requiring similar levels of skills and knowledge.

    THey use the 'legitimate fears' argument to get out of working evenings, weekends, going overseas. Blokes have to do all of this.

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    All *******s, in the main. THe promotions and appointments argument falls flat on its face where I work. 8 out of ten internal promotions are women and we have entire departments that havent hired a man in five years. THey make up 75% of our Corporate Management Team.

    When they want to start a family they get a year off, full pay, and even accrueannual ****ing leave whilst on maternity leave! When they finally comeback they get whatever they want in terms of flexible working/working from home etc. Trust me, when a woman wants to start a family the first thing she does is get herself a job here. THey are also immune from the sack or redundancy whilst on maternity leave.

    Of course, they all complain about discrimination but its rubbish. Not a single case you could point to here.

    There could potentially be an issue with the grading of some of the lowest paid jobs, where secretarial work is graded lower than unskilled manual work despite both requiring similar levels of skills and knowledge.

    THey use the 'legitimate fears' argument to get out of working evenings, weekends, going overseas. Blokes have to do all of this.
    Sounds like you work for a great company, which accounts for its (comparatively) small gender pay gap.

    A little more work to do to reach full equity, but certainly cause for optimism.

    wd your bosses, imo.

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
    Sounds like you work for a great company, which accounts for its (comparatively) small gender pay gap.

    A little more work to do to reach full equity, but certainly cause for optimism.

    wd your bosses, imo.
    It also sounds like it's either ..a. in the public sector.. b.. a very large and profitable organisation.
    Trust me on this. No SME could even begin to factor in those kinds of benefits and remain afloat.

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by 7sisters View Post
    It also sounds like it's either ..a. in the public sector.. b.. a very large and profitable organisation.
    Trust me on this. No SME could even begin to factor in those kinds of benefits and remain afloat.
    It's the former. Which is probably why the public sector attracts work shy, unambitious, presumptuous, left wing champagne socialists who drain the public funds while providing limited value to society as a whole.*

    *Not that Peter is anything like this, of course.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
    It's the former. Which is probably why the public sector attracts work shy, unambitious, presumptuous, left wing champagne socialists who drain the public funds while providing limited value to society as a whole.*

    *Not that Peter is anything like this, of course.
    Me? Certainly not. I don't particularly care for champagne.

  6. #6
    It's all bóllocks.

    See also the outrage at Facebook for doing whatever they did with people's data.

    Also all this #metoo nonsense.

    Bóllocks the lot of it.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    It's all bóllocks.

    See also the outrage at Facebook for doing whatever they did with people's data.

    Also all this #metoo nonsense.

    Bóllocks the lot of it.
    Well, quite

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