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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Good article on the gender gap in employment + other stuff

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ISNT · 12/10/2010 09:30

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 Smile

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sethstarkaddersmum · 12/10/2010 10:04

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!'

PortoFangO · 12/10/2010 10:08

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! Hmm

ISNT · 12/10/2010 10:09

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

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PortoFangO · 12/10/2010 10:10

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

sethstarkaddersmum · 12/10/2010 10:14

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

sethstarkaddersmum · 12/10/2010 10:16

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.

Miggsie · 12/10/2010 10:16

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

sethstarkaddersmum · 12/10/2010 10:17

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

wastingaway · 12/10/2010 10:24

I've an aunty who wrote computer languages. Hmm

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/10/2010 11:22

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

msrisotto · 12/10/2010 20:46

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

LeninGrad · 13/10/2010 12:42

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