This post should really be called: "Male expert declares women don't work enough and lives to talk about it." And why are academics called experts anyway?
The pay equity gap between men and women in Australia will not close until women are prepared to work longer hours, an academic says.
Err, you mean longer hours in the office I presume?
The only male taking part in a National Press Club panel discussion about the pay equity gap, Prof Wooden's remarks drew gasps from the mostly female audience.
Were they surprised at the findings, which have been known for centuries? Or surprised that this panel member had such a deep voice? Or surprised he earns 15% more than them for saying the same thing? I'm a little surprised he earned anything for this information.
Prof Wooden said closing the gap would require a change in the traditional family structure. "The only way we can achieve this is if we have lots of role reversals, lots of men behaving like women and lots of women behaving like men."
Now would be the time for collective gasps in the audience.
"I don't think women in Australia want that, I don't think that women anywhere in the world want that."
Well, mothers might not want that. But women in general? They are marrying less, and marrying later, working more and being conditioned to enjoy a childless existence. Isn't this what the feminist movement has been aspiring to?
Ms Plibersek strongly disagreed (You see what I'm going on about?) saying it was a matter of role-sharing, not role reversal.
You go hard, Ms Plibersek. Utopia is just a dish washing husband away.
Ms Plibersek said the Productivity Commission's inquiry into ...increasing tax rebates for child care ...were policies that would help reduce the gap.
Because if women don't have to be mothers, they can be workers instead. Be careful what you wish for Ms Plibersek.
"And we won't be doing it the same way we are doing it now, hopefully we won't be doing 100-hour weeks, we will be doing it totally differently.
Note to self: Review progress in 10 years.
Related Link: Male Expert declares women don't work enough, and lives to talk about it
The pay equity gap between men and women in Australia will not close until women are prepared to work longer hours, an academic says.
Err, you mean longer hours in the office I presume?
The only male taking part in a National Press Club panel discussion about the pay equity gap, Prof Wooden's remarks drew gasps from the mostly female audience.
Were they surprised at the findings, which have been known for centuries? Or surprised that this panel member had such a deep voice? Or surprised he earns 15% more than them for saying the same thing? I'm a little surprised he earned anything for this information.
Prof Wooden said closing the gap would require a change in the traditional family structure. "The only way we can achieve this is if we have lots of role reversals, lots of men behaving like women and lots of women behaving like men."
Now would be the time for collective gasps in the audience.
"I don't think women in Australia want that, I don't think that women anywhere in the world want that."
Well, mothers might not want that. But women in general? They are marrying less, and marrying later, working more and being conditioned to enjoy a childless existence. Isn't this what the feminist movement has been aspiring to?
Ms Plibersek strongly disagreed (You see what I'm going on about?) saying it was a matter of role-sharing, not role reversal.
You go hard, Ms Plibersek. Utopia is just a dish washing husband away.
Ms Plibersek said the Productivity Commission's inquiry into ...increasing tax rebates for child care ...were policies that would help reduce the gap.
Because if women don't have to be mothers, they can be workers instead. Be careful what you wish for Ms Plibersek.
"And we won't be doing it the same way we are doing it now, hopefully we won't be doing 100-hour weeks, we will be doing it totally differently.
Note to self: Review progress in 10 years.
Related Link: Male Expert declares women don't work enough, and lives to talk about it
WTF would an academic know about working long hours????
ReplyDeleteThey're all gone from here by 4 and on days they don't have lectures they don't even show up!
In the latest budget, families stay-at-home mums have been abandoned, nothing for them. Our leftist government prefers to call them men's stay-at-home appendages.
ReplyDelete"You go hard, Ms Plibersek. Utopia is just a dish washing husband away."
I must correct you Zen, the preferred term in this new-age world of ours is 'partner' not husband. ;)