OK I first read this article by Will Farrell called Exploiting the Gender Gap on [url=http://www.stevesmidlifecrisis.com/index.php?cat=42]Steves Midlife Crisis[/url] and then I saw it on Elises Blog…here is a little excerpt:

“Is the pay gap, then, about the different choices of men and women? Not quite. It’s about parents’ choices. Women who have never been married and are childless earn 117 percent of their childless male counterparts. (This comparison controls for education, hours worked and age.) Their decisions are more like married men’s, and never-married men’s decisions are more like women’s in general (careers in arts, no weekend work, etc.)

Does this imply that mothers sacrifice careers? Not really. Surveys of men and women in their 20′s find that both sexes (70 percent of men, and 63 percent of women) would sacrifice pay for more family time. The next generation’s discussion will be about who gets to be the primary parent.”

hmmm well I think..

…the gist of the article is that men just go for the money and women would rather have more time, I have always despised those that trade their lives for 50hours a week and a high salary. It reminds me of this story….

http://www.jonathanspencer.net/xoops/weblog+details.blog_id+235.htm

The trouble is with this kind of article about pay gaps that it is more of the “there aren’t really any inequalities” dross that gets spoon fed to us. I was very interested by GLORIA STEINEMS article here:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1568490,00.html]glorias article[/url]

and in the same newspaper the article that tells how the use of advertising budgets by large corporations manipulates what we see on tv…in the Uk you would have been hardpressed to find any documentaries on the 4 mainstream channels that mention ecology or environment..why becuase the large corporations had said they would not advertise on channels that presented negative eco stories.

Whats it got to do with this article about women, because whilst many have risen, they seem more an exception, look at leaders in government or industry…look at what happened with the hurricane in new orleans…the poor the black and women got left behind

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