Friday 8 March 2013

Is sexism dead? Not quite but it's not all bad

today is international womens day, some women will get time off work, gifts e.t.c. Why?  When is international mans day?

Fighting for equality means fighting for men and women to be treated the same, yes women have had it hard in the past but this doesn't mean that the scales should be tipped in their favour it should be balanced.



Looked at the international womens day thing

It starts badly
Today's Google Doodle is a montage of chubby female cartoon faces of all ethnicities”
a)      They’re not chubby
b)      Why would that be the first thing you’d notice

“”Only 17% of the UK tech workforce is female”
Which is not 100% related to sexism there are strong physiological reasons why men suit logical/technical roles and women suit care roles.  In fact I saw a piece on “embarrassing bodies” of all things whereby women could tell facial expressions more than men but men could perform logical tasks better.

I am just mildly upset that lack of equality is being promoted in its name and lack of thought is being applied to the articles.  I want equality, women should be paid the same for the same job, however there is also a class issue too.  What I mean is people from rich families are unfairly remunerated it happens yet there is no international poor persons day, I get paid less than other people who perform the same job, we should be equal but we're not.
 
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