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for true equity to be achieve society needs to support women (or men) who chose to raise their own childern and thus forfit their 'careers' in the paid workforce. Our society does not see these women (and men) as valid members, many do volinteer work to that reduce the demand on other resources and help to ensure that the next generation are civilised. Instead when asked what do you do? and repley I am a mother, they are then told yes but what else do you do? implying that what they do is not good enough and they can be dimissed as being non important.
If as does now happen these women then loss their partners the years they spent running a household and looking after family is regards as non work. Thus not unsuppring they find that their abilty to earn is less and their imcome is very low.
I feel that oen way to address this inbalance is to allow couples to split their income between the paid worker and the at home worker so that both have status in our society which sees personal income as personal value.Posted by jaffa, 08/03/2010 8:33am (2 years ago)
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Congratulations on setting up this group. Keeping up with the facts and what is going on is hard enough, and you are brave to attempt a survey! Don't forget the importance of advocacy - it can be very powerful if you have developed clear messages and can access the right people/media.
A comment on pay equity: it is hard these days to find out what women, or men, are paid. Twenty years ago, under the system of central wage fixing that was abolished in the 1980s, women at times actually narrowe the gender pay gap a little. Wages and salaries were published and on the public record under the central wage fixing system. But it did not permit employers to set the wages of the their employees, nor exploit them in various ways.
The central wage fixing system was much fairer for women and people at the lower end of the scales. Of course younger people generally do not know about the history of wage setting and they tend to just accept what the find when they enter the workforce. Hmm!Posted by Barbara M., 27/09/2009 11:44am (2 years ago)
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