Originally Posted by
Peter
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.