30,000 sacked every year for having babies

[skorpionuk]

... was the headline I spotted in someone's newspaper at Reading station today, instantly raising my hackles, and causing me to utter "how can we even pretend we have equality when this sort of thing goes on?".

The headline belongs to an article published in today's Observer, and is in reference to a new report by the Fawcett Society called Sexism

Comments

[kissmedeadly]

I loathe the quality of life/job satisfaction stuff, courtesy of spending far too many years pointing out that no matter how much I enjoyed my job, this wasn't really a good justification for the fact that no matter how senior I got my wages in my female dominated industry were always massively lower to comparable positions in male dominated industries. It is really annoying when you are on 24/7 for child protection stuff, know if it all goes horribly wrong you won't work again, and are surrounded by blokes who are less senior in their sectors getting paid two or three times as much as you. Quality of life my arse.

Also I notice my quality of life improves immensely when I have cash in my pocket and feel like society values my skills enough to pay me as much as other managery types. It's not just a measure of achievement, its a measure of what we value and hence are prepared to pay for. Care is apparently low on the list, although in fairness, we pay men pretty much as badly as we pay women for it.

Sorry, that was a rather tangental rant!