Good article on the gender gap in employment + other stuff

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on teh BBC today

I enjoyed this article, thought I'd share!

There definitely seem to be more feminist opinion in the mainstream press at the moment... Or am I just noticing it more than I used to? Either way, it's all good

I think there is more.
There was the thing on Channel 4 News last night about the pay gap - I was yelling at DH 'Quick, it's the pay gap on the news!' but what I really meant was 'Quick, it's something on the news presented from a feminist angle!'

Did you see this comment though?

"It depends in what respect this is referring to. Sometimes it is not practical to employ women for certain jobs and vice versa. There are huge gender differences where I work, for example, our finance department is 90% female whereas not a single woman works in my department (you could call it the computer geek department) because it's a technical role involving computer languages. We did employ a woman recently but to put it shortly, she failed miserably at the job, stayed for 2 weeks then went off sick and was never to be seen again."

Obviously women are unable to understand computer languages!

Yes I forgot to mention that - the first comment in response was saying that females can't work computers but actually ROFL!

I meant to add - it was probably spending 2 weeks with sexist arseholes that did it!

so they had better make sure they never employ another woman again because clearly they are ALL rubbish

btw can you imagine if it said 'We did employ a black guy recently but he failed miserably at the job, stayed off sick for two weeks....' etc.

Oh dear, I've worked with computers for 15 years...should I resign and let a man run the department?

oh come on admit it Miggsie. You're really one of those tranvestites aren't you?

I've an aunty who wrote computer languages.

I missed the C4 news thing but you can watch it here Rather puzzled why the address contains the words "equality disco" but I will watch with interest :o

I responded to that first comment the other day, funny it didn't get past the moderators. It wasn't rude.