Danish feminists encourage women to stop working for the rest of the year, because "they don't get paid for it anyway" - wage gap myth gets knocked down in media

BinaryShadow · 2011-10-31T10:11:54+00:00

Any woman that seriously does this deserves to be fired immediately after sending out the postcard.

imminentpotter · 2011-10-31T09:29:11+00:00

Two weeks ago this video about the wage gap hit the front page. A number of people were in the comments claiming feminists already accepted the facts presented (that the wage gap was mostly a result of choices and work patterns). Looks like that message hasn't filtered down to these activists in Denmark.

FreddyDeus · 2011-10-31T12:27:03+00:00

I had a conversation with my mother not so long ago about her salary compared to my father's salary. Not the income they earn today, but the income they earned back in the late 60s when they got together.

This is also why the ridiculous arguments from the feminist movement regarding the wage gap don't make much sense.

My mother was a trained typist, working for a largish company, in the typing pool.

My father was a time-served electrician working in maintenance in the textile industry. My father's apprenticeship lasted six years, during which time he was paid only a fraction of a working man's wage.

My mother did not spend six years qualifying as a typist.

My Father qualified around the time he met my mother, and went on to earn a full income.

My mother's income was around two thirds that of my father, or about 30% lower. For a job that in no way required the same amount of training, skill, application, and which was not as dangerous as being an industrial electrician.

For the record, he earned just over £18 a week (though he did also do overtime). My mother earned just under £12 a week. She didn't do overtime.

This was in 1968.

So am I really supposed to fucking believe that at the beginning of the 21st century, women are being systematically paid 22% less than men for doing the same job. That this is a universal 'truth'?

Bollocks.

Amunium · 2011-10-31T08:12:28+00:00

Quotes translated from the article:

Take the rest of the year off.

That's what the recommendation to women in the "women's last work day" campaign, which from Tuesday will be visible in the streets, on Facebook and on postcards, which women can send to their bosses with the message that they're taking [the rest of the year] off. The campaign's point is that women earn so much less than men that they can take the rest of the year off.

I might just be a grumpy arse, but if a female employee of mine, who obviously earns the same as her male colleagues, sent me a postcard saying that she's taking the rest of the year off because of such ill-informed bullshit, even if she was serious about it or not, I'd seriously consider firing her - she has shown that she thinks she is better than men simply by having a vagina, and she thinks she should be paid more because of it. Such women are a liability, not an asset.

"To be able to compare the differences in salary, you have to take into account that there are a large number of differences between men and women's jobs" says professor of economics Nina Smith

OK, feminists... Time to put your fingers in your ears and yell "lalalalala". Don't listen to that chauvinistic, male, woman-hating pig!

Wait, the name was "Nina"? Don't listen to her anyway, feminists! She's a traitor!

Another known reason to the difference in wages is that women choose educations and business where there often is more safety and freedom, but on the other hand also lower wages.

"In law studies women dominate right now. But when they're done [with their studies], they go directly to the lower wage jobs in the public sector, so they can get home from work early. Men, on the other hand, go after the lawyer jobs in the private sector, where they work longer and get paid more" says Nina Smith.

DaphneDK · 2011-10-31T14:03:48+00:00

Well as the article also makes clear then the campaign is based on "at best wildly exaggerated" assumptions. And: "To be able to compare the differences in wage, you have to take into consideration that there exists a long range of differences in the sort of work done by men and women." etc.

justaverage · 2011-10-31T18:22:47+00:00

If you need a job, might be a good time to move to Denmark.

Octagonecologyst · 2011-10-31T13:09:01+00:00

As a Dane, I hope these ungrateful bitches get fired. Fuck 'em.

EDIT: If they're seriously gonna protest, I'mma drag my ass out there and see if I can actually educate some of these dumb cunts.

ThePigman · 2011-11-01T00:33:42+00:00

"encourage women to stop working for the rest of the year"

How will anyone be able to tell the difference?

bubbletop · 2011-10-31T15:53:51+00:00

I hope they really take the rest of the year off. Unemployed men can take the very few female jobs that are usefull. Most women never do any productive work even when they have a so called "job". Getting of women and demonstrating how everything gets done much more efficiently without them would be a good thing.

Perhaps later all men could take off work for a while. After a few days with no electricity, no food, no garbage collection, etc. it would be proven that men are needed, while women are worse than useless.

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