I agree with this...except instead of the "same" pay for everyone, get paid on your experience and how well you do your job. Where I work, I only have a part-time status, run myself ragged for everyone trying to get everything done, while the full-time (male) sits in the office with the to managers (also male) and talk about hunting, real estate, etc...usually nothing to do with work. Then the full-time guy will finally come out into the warehouse when he hears me doing stuff to do some "token" work. Usually by the time he comes out, I'm done doing everything that needs to be done.
I actually have no proof if me being female has anything to do with this, but it's really giving them a bad name.
Also...I never expected to be treated differently just because I'm female at work...someone asks if I need help I tell them no, cuz I have my own way of doing something and if someone else is there they'll be in my way risking harm to themselves LOL
There is a female driver at work though that DOES display those "I want special treatment" qualities and it just pisses me off. I've worked for three years to gain the respect of the drivers there and she just expects it? HA!
Ah, sorry...did not mean to make this a long drawn-out comment...But you DO have really good points to this post. I just wanted to voice that not ALL females are like this and the ones that do, give us a bad name :P
Well with the "equal pay" statement, I was referring to the base starting wages of people getting the same job. Of course people who have been there longer, etc. should get paid more. But if a African american man, a woman, and a white ma, each with the same level of education and experience start the same job, their pay should be identical.
Well, your full-timer is probably mostly lazy, but there is probably a little bit of sexism there. I think its mostly due to the fact that you are part-time and he is full time. So he is important and you are not (in his eyes). I have the same problem with my manager/co-worker. He is full time and I am part time, yet I get called in to do his job a lot of times and I do a lot of the work and many of the idea but never get any credit for it.
(icon directed at stupid co-workers and not at you :)
I actually have no proof if me being female has anything to do with this, but it's really giving them a bad name.
Also...I never expected to be treated differently just because I'm female at work...someone asks if I need help I tell them no, cuz I have my own way of doing something and if someone else is there they'll be in my way risking harm to themselves LOL
There is a female driver at work though that DOES display those "I want special treatment" qualities and it just pisses me off. I've worked for three years to gain the respect of the drivers there and she just expects it? HA!
Ah, sorry...did not mean to make this a long drawn-out comment...But you DO have really good points to this post. I just wanted to voice that not ALL females are like this and the ones that do, give us a bad name :P
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Well, your full-timer is probably mostly lazy, but there is probably a little bit of sexism there. I think its mostly due to the fact that you are part-time and he is full time. So he is important and you are not (in his eyes). I have the same problem with my manager/co-worker. He is full time and I am part time, yet I get called in to do his job a lot of times and I do a lot of the work and many of the idea but never get any credit for it.
(icon directed at stupid co-workers and not at you :)
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