International Women's Day

[wilmer1974]

Hi all,
As you know it's International Women's day on Tuesday and our workplace are doing a newsletter which promotes #Breakthebias.

Do you have any good quotes I could add!

Why do men get to use all the power tools!

That sort of thing.

Thanks in advance.

"Why do men get to use all the power tools!"

Don't put that ^ in it, for a start.

Wow.

"what do we want?"
"power tools!"
"when do we want them?"
"shortly after men stop murdering/raping/terrifying us, we get equal pay, proper healthcare and WASPIs get their pensions?"

My workplace did interviews for the newsletter with several of the female execs talking frankly about discrimination they've faced as women in leadership positions, and how they have succeeded. It was powerful and inspiring. I'm not sure that the quotes you're looking for will have that same effect.

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them."

Give a summary of your company's Gender Pay Gap reports, if they have done them.

I have all the power tools.
Why do you think women don't get power tools?

Why do men get to use all the power tools! This is an odd thing to put unless it's workplace specific maybe?

@SpittinKitten

"Why do men get to use all the power tools!"

Don't put that ^ in it, for a start.

No don't put that. It sounds really silly.

What about going through that sort of list that demonstrates our cultural biases against women's behaviour in the workplace? oh dear, I haven't put that well, but I mean

We call a man = assertive
We call a woman = aggressive

Man = leader
Woman = bossy

Man gets angry = normal
Woman cries = bloody women, always getting emotional

Men chatting = banter = normal
Women chatting = bloody women, gossiping all the time

That sort of thing ... I'm sure the lovely vipers here can put together a much better list.

@LaChanticleer

What about going through that sort of list that demonstrates our cultural biases against women's behaviour in the workplace? oh dear, I haven't put that well, but I mean

We call a man = assertive
We call a woman = aggressive

Man = leader
Woman = bossy

Man gets angry = normal
Woman cries = bloody women, always getting emotional

Men chatting = banter = normal
Women chatting = bloody women, gossiping all the time

That sort of thing ... I'm sure the lovely vipers here can put together a much better list.

Woman takes time off the attend Nativity play/sports day: not dedicated to job Man takes time off: hero.

#breakthebias isn't the official UN Women theme by the way. That seems to have been cooked up by a company which has set up an IWD website.

And everyone on LinkedIn is now finding #breakthebias instead of UN Women's campaign about climate change and the burden this places on women and girls.

Even the BBC has some accurate information about the theme:
BBC News - International Women's Day 2022: History, marches and celebrations
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60610678

As to what you can say - try to use sex rather than gender and then take your pick of how women and girls are disadvantaged - by climate change, pay, femicide and domestic violence...

The commercial side of IWD love their slogans don't they. Pithy and quite frankly useless, but great for social media. This year pose with your arms in a cross sign, the year before it was pose in an equal sign. I really don't think it is helping.

Power tools? Yes I was using my cordless drill just yesterday. I bought new batteries for it which is great and means I don't have to use the corded drill anymore. Will be getting the jet wash out tomorrow to clean the car. Hedges are not ready to cut yet so I can leave the electric hedge cutters for now.

I have all the power tools.
Why do you think women don't get power tools?

This. I love my DIY and tools. However I rarely get the time I would like to use them – largely because as a woman, my career came second to ex's, in his view, so he refused to go part-time and do his share of childcare, I ended up primary carer, and when we separated it was not possible to go 50-50, so I do large amounts of parenting, housework, cooking, shopping, laundry, admin etc etc every day while trying to work full-time but I'm paid less than ex, so have to work more hours to get enough money.

But I have some lovely power tools.