What sort of hideous government is this.!

[Mottie]

Women are 100% more likely to get time off from work for period pain.
Women are more likely to get time off for looking after little tarquin when he has tummy ache
Women are 100% going to get 100% pay longer than men when a child is born
100% of Women are going to get more paid maternity than men
And until recently women were allowed to retire 5 years earlier than men.
So if you add everything up and take into account all of those hours off that you get away with you probably earn more than a man per hour in the same job.
And when you get "equality" you dont like having the same retirement as men -- as Pete would say "think on"

I think I tried that reasoning on Mrs Mottie once and she reminded me that it’s generally the women and not the men who, when they get home from their jobs, do the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, shopping, childminding etc etc.

She summed it up with two words too and they weren’t "think on".

 

[aveatry]

Elsa
You are already contributing here, as are others. No need to start a new thread.

Aveatry
You ask "How so", then when I explain, you reply with a rant mostly based around the biological functions of women...

So my giving out facts - you think is a rant. None of what I say is wrong. You moan about equal pay without doing the Math.

 

[aveatry]

I think I tried that reasoning on Mrs Mottie once and she reminded me that it’s generally the women and not the men who, when they get home from their jobs, do the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, shopping, childminding etc etc.

Only if you are still living in the 1950s
And if she wants a fight about it who does the car maintenance, cuts the grass- house maintenance, how many women are on this DIY site asking how to fix the roof - I think there are only 2. Its a team effort and neither should be keeping count.

She summed it up with two words too and they weren’t "think on".

"Not tonight"

 

[Boney Em]

Did you ask a question relevant to DIY ? Sorry I missed that.

Apology accepted.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.

 

[Boney Em]

So he was by the rivers of Babylon -------- and you pushed him in

He underestimated me, I can swim.

 

[Boney Em]

Women are 100% more likely to get time off from work for period pain.

Compared to who?

Women are more likely to get time off for looking after little tarquin when he has tummy ache

That is not workplace practice or policy. It is purely cultural expectations, so your claim is false.
If you had said women are more likely to take time off to care for a sick child, your claim would have been correct. But you did not claim that.

Women are 100% going to get 100% pay longer than men when a child is born
100% of Women are going to get more paid maternity than men

These two claims are identical.
There are several reasons for the differentiation. Women's maternity leave is based on not just infant care. It's also based on physical recovery, and the need for breastfeeding. It is also the cultural norm for women to be the primary care-giver for the infant.
Also your claim ignores the women that do not take maternity leave. Only about 60% of the female workforce of childbearing age take maternity leave. If you include the women past childbearing age, the percentage shrinks, obviously.
About 25% of new mothers exit the labour market completely, maybe permanently, maybe temporary.

And until recently women were allowed to retire 5 years earlier than men.

So that anomaly has been addressed.

So if you add everything up and take into account all of those hours off that you get away with you probably earn more than a man per hour in the same job.

If you add everything up, your first claim was false and incorrectly presented, your second claim relies on your limited perception, not reality: women deserve longer maternity leave for the reasons mentioned, and your third claim is outdated, so your comparison of male to female hourly rates has been proven to be outdated and incorrect.

And when you get "equality" you dont like having the same retirement as men --

And men still insist on speaking for women. Ask the women!