The Women’s March organizers have called for a big strike today. Will it work?

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My local BrewPub was celebrating, no female staff. After a few bevies we decided we should celebrate every Wednesday.

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13 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I am going to identify as a woman today, chilling at the house

Don't go out or you might not find a restroom

 

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On Int'l. Women's Day, shouldn't they be required to put their own toilet seats down?

And to lift them back up when they're finished?

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I don't know how mainstream it is in Europe but I was talking about this topic with my wife yesterday and she mentioned something in the UK. She said there is a specific day every year where women walk out in the middle of the afternoon. The date and time is calculated based on the wage gap, and it estimates the time at which for the rest of the year women are essentially working for "free" because they are paid less than their "equal" male counterparts. She said at least at her company every woman she knew went along with it for the past couple of years. It's not exactly the same, but it's a little similar I guess. The date is somewhere in October.

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Actually there is no such thing, equal pay has been mandated for longer than I can remember.

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2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Actually there is no such thing, equal pay has been mandated for longer than I can remember.

Something can be mandated without it actually being put into practice with 100% efficiency.

 

There are many people in your country who would disagree with you. I speak about the UK, not Wales specifically. I have no idea what goes on in Wales other than rain and gloominess (seemingly more than the rest of the Island).

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4 minutes ago, bcking said:

I don't know how mainstream it is in Europe but I was talking about this topic with my wife yesterday and she mentioned something in the UK. She said there is a specific day every year where women walk out in the middle of the afternoon. The date and time is calculated based on the wage gap, and it estimates the time at which for the rest of the year women are essentially working for "free" because they are paid less than their "equal" male counterparts. She said at least at her company every woman she knew went along with it for the past couple of years. It's not exactly the same, but it's a little similar I guess. The date is somewhere in October.

That's similar to "Tax Freedom Day", which ironically this year happens to fall on the same day as the tax deadline, April 17th.

 

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(CNSNews.com) - Americans have until April 17 to file their federal tax returns this year, and ironically, according to the Tax Foundation, the average American will have to work from Jan. 1 until exactly that day just to pay his or her share of the taxes that government will absorb this year.

Each year, the Tax Foundation calculates “Tax Freedom Day.” It determines this date by adding up all the taxes Americans pay to local, state and federal governments, then calculating what those taxes equal as a percentage of the total national income, and then convert that percentage into the equivalent number of days in a 365-day year (compensating for leap years to keep the date comparable for all years).

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/americans-must-work-until-april-17-year-just-pay-government

 

 

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2 minutes ago, bcking said:

Something can be mandated without it actually being put into practice with 100% efficiency.

 

There are many people in your country who would disagree with you. I speak about the UK, not Wales specifically. I have no idea what goes on in Wales other than rain and gloominess (seemingly more than the rest of the Island).

I read the Guardian and it is regular theme of theirs, if they have comments open there is a steady progression of posters pointing out the errors of their ways.

 

Amusingly if anything looking at those in their 20's and 30's women are if anything paid more.

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Just now, Boiler said:

I read the Guardian and it is regular theme of theirs, if they have comments open there is a steady progression of posters pointing out the errors of their ways.

 

Amusingly if anything looking at those in their 20's and 30's women are if anything paid more.

There are a lot of ways in which women can end up being paid less. The obvious one is to employ a woman in the same post as a man and pay her less. That is obvious, and easier to crack down on.

 

There are many, more insidious ways to disenfranchise women in work. One would be to impact women's advancement in specific careers so that for the same amount of work and years experience, they are in a "lower ranking" job and therefore paid less. You could argue they are paid the same as a male in their position, but the men in the same position have less experience and work far less hard.

 

My wife saw it all the time in Oil and Gas. It is a man's world, men advance faster despite being less productive.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/gender-pay-gap-women-working-free-until-end-of-year

 

jemimasays 

9 Nov 2015 1:19 

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Please Guardian, I'm begging you - as a woman and a feminist - to stop publishing these articles.

These statistics have been debunked time and time again. In continually linking to them, all you're doing is suggesting that feminists can't use statistics and that we don't listen to feedback.

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1 minute ago, Boiler said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/gender-pay-gap-women-working-free-until-end-of-year

 

jemimasays 

9 Nov 2015 1:19 

3738

Please Guardian, I'm begging you - as a woman and a feminist - to stop publishing these articles.

These statistics have been debunked time and time again. In continually linking to them, all you're doing is suggesting that feminists can't use statistics and that we don't listen to feedback.

When did the Guardian come up? I never mentioned them. You seemed to bring them up and then debunk them. Good for you I guess?

 

I'm sure things were worse decades ago, but that doesn't mean that everything is rosey for women in traditionally male dominated corporate or STEM fields. 

 

Unfortunately for my wife things are going to be even worse in the US for her.

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Just debunking your meme as far as the UK is concerned.

 

Including Wales.

 

I do not know the situation in the US.

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Just now, Boiler said:

Just debunking your meme as far as the UK is concerned.

 

Including Wales.

 

I do not know the situation in the US.

What meme? I don't recall creating one.

 

I made a statement about something that I've been told is quite prevalent in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Every female coworker my wife knows participated, as well as all of her female university friends who work in other high level fields. I didn't claim to have specific data on the topic. I imagine the more insidious ways of limiting female wages and advancement would be very hard to study. I'm just speaking from the personal experience of my wife.

 

Don't see any meme in my original post to "debunk". 

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1 hour ago, bcking said:

What meme? I don't recall creating one.

 

I made a statement about something that I've been told is quite prevalent in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Every female coworker my wife knows participated, as well as all of her female university friends who work in other high level fields. I didn't claim to have specific data on the topic. I imagine the more insidious ways of limiting female wages and advancement would be very hard to study. I'm just speaking from the personal experience of my wife.

 

Don't see any meme in my original post to "debunk". 

 

   Your imaginary meme was debunked. Just live with it.

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Just now, Dakine10 said:

 

   Your imaginary meme was debunked. Just live with it.

I've never created a meme before, so if I did unknowingly I am quite proud