Happy Women's Equality Day, Ladies! (8/26)

[Coito ergo sum]

The reality:

[Kristie]

The reality:

[maiforpeace]

[owtth]

[leo-rcc]

We really suck at this equality celebrating dont we?

[Ayaan]

I don't think women are the equals of men.







I think they're far more dangerous.

You're right, I've seen them parallel park.

You leave my wife out of this!

I can parallel park!

Women are more dangerous. We're sneakier.

[Trolldor]

...huh.
Seems to be a little bit premmature to be celebrating women's equality yet, don't you think?

[Warren Dew]

And I hope you get equality eventually.

I just hope there's not too much backsliding that will affect my daughter:

[Dory]

Boy oh boy....FINALLY that day has come. I mean, seriously....we fought hard, haven't we, my fellow women? I'm so proud at our female-related accomplishments and everything that is female that we do!!! YAY FOR EQUALITY!!! We suffered for far too long....

Yay for womenhood.

Yay for equality!

Let's carry on the movement for future female generations and....uh....I can't keep this charade guys. I couldn't give any less shit.

And it's more like "I have boobs so i make the rules"... and it's true! In my findings. Make the food, yea...but who gets the money eh?

[Coito ergo sum]

Women will start on the road to equality when they pay for half the dates and spend as much as men on Valentines Day....and buy men Engagement Watches costing thousands of dollars....

Oh...and take your own damn car in for oil changes!

And, is it really so hard to pump your own gas?

....and stop it with the excessive foreplay....

EDIT...oh, and dammit .... learn East, West, North and South! None of you knows where West is!

[Warren Dew]

As reported by money.cnn.com, Warren Farrell, author of Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap – and What Women Can Do About It, believes this is a case of comparable pay versus equal pay, or apples and oranges. He says men are more likely to make life-decisions that will lead to a higher annual salary. He says males are more apt (than women) to relocate or travel for work, take on more dangerous jobs (over 90 percent of workplace deaths are reportedly men), work in the difficult (read boring) sciences, seek jobs that require financial risk and work jobs in unpleasant environments.

The "life decisions" that men make that lead to a higher annual salary really just boil down to (1) "deciding" not to get pregnant, and (2) "deciding" not to breast feed their children. Those decisions put the men ahead of the women by months. At that point, a tax structure that penalizes parents who choose to work and pay for child care pressures most women to continue to stay out of the work force for years. Lose 5 or 10 years of experience, and you have the pay gap.

We can't fix the biology, but we could fix the tax structure. That would allow women to return to work after months instead of years, and the pay gap would shrink accordingly. Unfortunately, no one seems interested in addressing this issue.

I don't think the argument about more "dangerous" jobs holds up. Considering the tiny percentage of people who die at work these days, the pay premium for it ought at most be 1-2%, not 20%. That's assuming that the dangerous jobs are the ones that pay well, which I question.

[Bella Fortuna]

And I hope you get equality eventually.

I just hope there's not too much backsliding that will affect my daughter:

Awwww, she's lovely, Warren.

[kiki5711]

Women will start on the road to equality when they pay for half the dates and spend as much as men on Valentines Day....and buy men Engagement Watches costing thousands of dollars....

Oh...and take your own damn car in for oil changes!

And, is it really so hard to pump your own gas?

....and stop it with the excessive foreplay....

EDIT...oh, and dammit .... learn East, West, North and South! None of you knows where West is!

cook your own dinner, and do your own laundry! :parrot: :parrot: :parrot:

[Warren Dew]

Awwww, she's lovely, Warren.

Thanks!

You realize, of course, that I will use your post as an excuse to flood the thread with baby pictures. I will pretend to keep them on topic, though.

So the question is, should we be encouraging this:



or this:

[Bella Fortuna]

We have a thread for pictures of our kids; you should post some there!