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Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
Just a look around will tell you we are better than some but still have a way to go.. many young people, and I mean NO insult in this, believe we have equality and so there is no need now for feminism.. that's partly why there is some movement against it..the other part of that is people who wish a return to the bad old days.. but that's a different subject..
RE the everyday sexism and discrimination we still encounter.. in a recent article in the Times we saw that we are still not there re equal pay.. have a long way to go.. and this covers cleaners, shop assistants, hairdressers etc.. so it's ordinary people.. we saw another news article saying that ASDA have opened the facility whereby women can now apply for equal pay, apply.. not automatically get.. they have to apply.. that's still good news but one wonders why it's taken so long. It also shows we are not there yet.. we dont have equality or anywhere near..
And when it comes to childcare, (and to a lesser degree housework) that's when it really gets unequal.. even when a woman returns to work she is faces with problems that she hadn't anticipated.. and its then the inequality really shows.. take for example... a manager.. has a baby wants to return... ahh but she finds that even tho her and her husband both MADE the baby.. HE expects that SHE will do all the raising, all the getting the baby ready before work... she will do all the running around to nursery and childcare.. and when the baby is sick SHE is expected to be the one who stays home to look after it..and so her position as manager becomes untenable.. or difficult at very least. but when you think about it why should this be.. they both made the baby.. it wasnt her on her own.. why should HER career suffer? FOr sure some women are happy to stay home look after kids.. nothing wrong with that.. but its almost no choice cos the reality is it's too hard and most of the child care falls to the woman.. and if she stays home what then? taking time out from her career and the continuing majority of childcare fallign to her tends to mean she has no choice but a part time low paid job.. .these are the realities.. and not the only ones... we still have a way to go..
There's a lot of myth about.. and some have been fed the line that feminists are anti men.. they arent... it's about workign together and fairness
RE the everyday sexism and discrimination we still encounter.. in a recent article in the Times we saw that we are still not there re equal pay.. have a long way to go.. and this covers cleaners, shop assistants, hairdressers etc.. so it's ordinary people.. we saw another news article saying that ASDA have opened the facility whereby women can now apply for equal pay, apply.. not automatically get.. they have to apply.. that's still good news but one wonders why it's taken so long. It also shows we are not there yet.. we dont have equality or anywhere near..
And when it comes to childcare, (and to a lesser degree housework) that's when it really gets unequal.. even when a woman returns to work she is faces with problems that she hadn't anticipated.. and its then the inequality really shows.. take for example... a manager.. has a baby wants to return... ahh but she finds that even tho her and her husband both MADE the baby.. HE expects that SHE will do all the raising, all the getting the baby ready before work... she will do all the running around to nursery and childcare.. and when the baby is sick SHE is expected to be the one who stays home to look after it..and so her position as manager becomes untenable.. or difficult at very least. but when you think about it why should this be.. they both made the baby.. it wasnt her on her own.. why should HER career suffer? FOr sure some women are happy to stay home look after kids.. nothing wrong with that.. but its almost no choice cos the reality is it's too hard and most of the child care falls to the woman.. and if she stays home what then? taking time out from her career and the continuing majority of childcare fallign to her tends to mean she has no choice but a part time low paid job.. .these are the realities.. and not the only ones... we still have a way to go..
There's a lot of myth about.. and some have been fed the line that feminists are anti men.. they arent... it's about workign together and fairness