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Taral-DLOS your Father sounds like a wise man! Sound answer.
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It neglects several points that reduce their seniority compared to their piers, or make them less practical candidates for the position. On average:
- women more time off, not including maternity leave reducing years on the job
- women work fewer hours per week, and less overtime, reducing experience
- women retire (on average) two years before men, reducing time they have the seniority to be selected for such positions, and the duration of their tenures in such positions |
I don't know about you guys, but when there's a family crisis, it's not Dad who takes time off. It's Mom. It seems men don't try to do it all. Men throw everything into business, while women have to juggle a family and a career. Do gender roles explain why women work less, take more time off, etc.? |
I'd like to think that it's a no. That the couples are weighing their options.
Like when I worked for Kodak for ten years it was my wife who would take the time off since I made a lot more at that time. Unless it was for a long stretch when I would take the time off and get it covered under vacation or FMLA. But now SHE'S the one who makes more. SO I take the time off, unless it's long and she uses her benefits to cover it.
So I'd like to think that people are choosing based on financial sense vs what gender.
But I also grew up with a Father who worked all the time and a Stay at home Mom until we moved to the southern end of the state and my Mom became liberated- she's big into women's rights, and liberating women who are in poor relationships where the men dominate the woman still because they think they can. It's sad that some people have not evolved in some regards. And close-mindedness will always exist.
I can't deny that Gender issues exists. I just try to think and be positive about it. Raise my son to break the mold, respect all life, and to do right/ good deads, and my Daughters to be fierce strong willed independent women who take no guff from anyone. When it comes to things that can be taken in more than one way- I try to go with the positive ones.
Like for example I recently learned the term Co-Ed stands for MORE than just both sexes, sure enough at one point it did mean for ladies classes/ programs, but now that use of the word is almost completely obsolete, the other definitions/ uses have become the standard when people hear the word.
Thankfully, the sexist version of the word is now all but obsolete enough that I'm mid 30's and had never heard it used as anything more than meaning boys and girls together.
I'd like to think my children will all grow up in a more equal world due to how my Mom raised me and the lengths she went to, standing up for what is right. She still comes across men who talk down to her. And when she sends me or my Dad to deal with them they always act like I or he knows more than she did. The idiots. Half the time my Mom's 90% more versed than I. My Dad is humble enough to recognize that my Mom is a lot smarter and shrewder than he is when it comes to money. But my Dad also was raised by a Catholic Swiss Dairy Farmer, so my Dad can at times be a little thick to some of it too.
So I guess I'm mixed on it. For I can see it exist in places. My Mom seems convinced that Romney is part of a war against women's rights. But she goes all over the net these days, so I'm not sure half of what she reads isn't just spin, spin, spin. But I choose to think that at the end of the day most things are less about Gender and more about thought out decisions.
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