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See a lot of gut hanging out men propped on shovels too! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Bucks5
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
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There seem to be at least two guys hanging around each girl on worksites. If she is blonde then it is 3 or 4. _________________ How would Siri know when to answer "Hey Siri" unless it is listening in to everything you say? |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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Skids wrote: | My old mates at Roy Hill just copped another kick in the guts.
NPI Superintendent role was vacant. Long standing supervisor in the department had been seconded into the role and was the obvious choice for the position.
Nope. A young female has been appointed to the $250k+ role.
No experience in the position but will be carried along regardless.
The site has a 40/40/20 target to meet and, as long as Iron Ore is sold for the ridiculous price it continues to hold, that will be the goal.
* 40% male, 40% female, 20% 'other'. |
she quit... too hard. _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Hard to imagine how she couldn't have succeeded, with such supportive colleagues... _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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Supportive colleagues? She was gifted the job even though she had no experience in the role and hadn't even worked in a supervisory role. Should never have been appointed and only was because of her gender.
Oh don't worry, they'll invent some new role, maybe Superintendent of internal.communications or something along those lines, offer her a 10% pay increase and beg her to stay. _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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Bucks5
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
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This came up in my twitter feed.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1746515707360088486
So the gender pay gap is purely based on annual salaries so it stands to reason that women will collectively earn less as they usually elect to work part time particularly while their children are growing up _________________ How would Siri know when to answer "Hey Siri" unless it is listening in to everything you say? |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Choosing statistics that support the outcome you prefer? That never happens.
_________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
I dare you to try
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Wait, is that David Leyonhjelm? Must be a pretty old clip – he hasn't been in office since pre-COVID times.
This is one of those debates that I'm puzzled by, as it mostly seems to consist of two groups of people talking past one another: one pointing out that men on average earn more than women, and the other that men and women receive equal pay for equal work.
If we can accept that both of those things are simultaneously true and put all the rhetoric to one side, then at least we're starting from the same factual basis – in which case, the question just becomes how each of those facts is relevant to what's being discussed, and that, given there is a gap, what (if anything) we should be doing to rectify it.
I think there are non-trivial reasons to conclude that it is a problem (whether it be structural discrimination in the sense of men being chosen over women for promotions due to gender bias, female-dominated industries being undervalued, or simply mothers as opposed to fathers having more financial insecurity due to taking on the primary parenting role). For me, that's where the main battleground should be, not silly bickering on both sides over whether or not there is a thing called a "wage gap" that exists to begin with. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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There certainly is a gender gap. 97% of deaths in the workplace are males.
Two thirds of suicides are male. 60% of the homeless are males. 95% of prisoners are male. _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Homeless women in their 50s are the fastest-growing statistic in the past few years. |
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David
I dare you to try
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Skids wrote: | There certainly is a gender gap. 97% of deaths in the workplace are males.
Two thirds of suicides are male. 60% of the homeless are males. 95% of prisoners are male. |
Yep – and a serious as opposed to partisan my-side-vs-your-side approach is to recognise that both of these things are problems and don't cancel one another out.
Conversely, if we're going to dismiss women having less disposable income as merely being about "personal choices", you can do the same for many of these other statistics where men don't fare so well. But if you can see these as outcomes of structural and cultural problems, as I firmly believe we should, then we'll be able to have productive conversations about how to address them. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace
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Bucks5
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
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If the gender pay gap is attributed to mothers/women electing to work part time, the only fix is to pay them the same as males who work full time with overtime - which would have disastrous consequences. _________________ How would Siri know when to answer "Hey Siri" unless it is listening in to everything you say? |
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David
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^ There are actually quite a few other more practical solutions, for instance: improving childcare funding and rebates to make it easier for women to return to work earlier; encouraging more fathers to share a more hands-on parenting role by increasing paternity leave provisions; and addressing other issues that tend to cause a wage gap in higher-earning brackets such as salary transparency. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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There's a hell of a lot more to it than just more women choosing to work part time, lots of which I'm sure was covered earlier in the thread. A large contributing factor is the number of occupations that predominantly employ women that are poorly paid.
And what about the number of women who choose not to work after having kids because their partner earns enough that they don't have to.
Simply pulling a set of numbers together without proper context and huffing and puffing about there being a gender pay gap and we need to fix it is, IMHO, just virtue signalling bullshit and finger pointing.
A good starting point would be to increase wages of front line people working in child care/kinders but since most of the money comes from the state governments, it's easier to huff and puff and point the finger at large corporates. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
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Where I tend to agree is that "the wage gap" is just a slogan, and that any serious approach to the issue should be drilling down into the statistics further and finding areas where there are specific problems that need to be addressed.
Having said that, sometimes people need simplistic slogans to get interested in something in the first place. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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