Oh oh oh... {fume fume fume}... I'm trying to be a working mum and especially the statement by Satoshi Kanazawa in this article really made me mad...
My reply to that... AS IF I HAVE A CHOICE!!! I for myself do not wish to have a less demanding job! I want to use my brain and be challenged! Though I do want a job that either enables me to afford childcare or a job that I can fit around child responsibilities. But looking around it is very obvious that part-time jobs are much worse paid than full time jobs. IMHO it's because the employer suspects that mums want to go back to work (for maybe their sanity - my case) and are 'quite desparate' for part-time, hence taking advantage of this fact and paying less... comes under supply & demand I guess.
Rant over. Need to take dd to nursery
In case you didn't get the mn email with a synopsis:
Working mothers? blues Women with children are being forced into badly paid, low status jobs because of a lack of quality part-time work, according to the interim findings of the Women and Work commission, set up by Tony Blair to examine the UK?s gender pay gap. The commission, due to report fully in September, says discrimination against women is ?deeply engrained? in British society. The gap between the hourly pay of women and men working full-time was 14.4 per cent, while that between part-time women and full-time men was 43.2 per cent. And part-time female workers earned 33.7 per cent less per hour than those working full time. But a (male) academic, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics, says in another report this week that women choose it that way - he says after they have babies, mothers don?t want to return to the rat race so they look for less demanding, lower-paid jobs. (Guardian 09.03.05 and Sunday Times 06.03.05)