Each generation could find things they feel are ‘unfair’! Is it fair that as a woman I got 12 weeks mat leave when if id been born a few years later, I’d have got 6 months? Or later again and I’d have got a year? And what about those of us who paid full childcare fees? We don’t get compensated just because now people get 30 hours a week free, funded by tax payers (and I’m still one!) I’m fully paid with NI contributions - but I still have to pay out because I still work. And what about my dh - is it fair that he had to go back to work the day after each of our babies were born, when now he’d get paid time off?
where there were clear, systemic injustices (such as women not earning the same as men for the same job) there is rightly legislation which addressed that. But the different challenges which face each generation are just part of life.
The WASPI women are being ridiculous. The thinly veiled excuse that they ‘didn’t know’ information which was widely publicised is disingenuous - the reality is that they just wanted to get state pension at 60. In many cases, they’d already had years out of the workplace, or were only working part time, often funded by husbands working full time who were never going to get their pension until 65 anyway! The irony!
and no, I don’t believe Mumsnet ‘hates women.’ The reality is that many of us don’t see women as helpless and incapable of working, taking financial responsibility or keeping ourselves informed about important issues.