We are all equal, but some more than others (Male and Female Pay Differentials)

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Product:	Male and Female Pay Differentials
Date:	23/05/02 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: Work hard and you can have it all

Disadvantages: Babies

All the married women I know at work that look like women would rather stay at home and look after the kids ate their leisure. The youngsters are for more energetic with the new university degrees and aspirations and love the buzz. But for most girls nearing forty, sixty hours a week with kids at home means a crap relationship or a kip on the single sofa with a bottle of vino.

Im not saying the work place is a mans world but its geared to the parent that isnt breast feeding the kid. Career progression comes from putting in long hours and knowing the employee is going to be in the work place more than the home. In normal circumstances ten years ago that would mostly be me and the guys reading this, and we didn?t really care for it, especially if the wife decides to look elsewhere cause your knackered every night earning the wonga.

Women have all the opportunities in the world now to have great independent lives and lifestyles. But married and women with children are saying to anyone who will listen that they feel financially pressured to work, but personally feel staying at home with the kids it?s the right thing to do. Not in every case, but most in middle age let?s say.
New Labor have been pushing to get women back into work after having children, with little success, especially in low skilled areas. So the girls who do stick with it after pregnancies have a free range of careers geared to them.

Most new mums take a bit of time with their kids before returning to work, not so much for career reasons but hard cash reasons. Im recently divorced and luckily have no kids. The only good thing about my personal situation is that she can?t ask for maintenance to subsidize her boyfriend, or wine list!.
To be honest, and I think new mums will agree, most seem knackered trying to bring up kids and have jobs. That alone is enough to break down relationships. Defintaly if her income is half the household bills.
I would say very few
would go back to work in normal jobs if given the choice. But such is the modern day mantra to have the`independent lifestyle`they keep working as if an addiction.

I was reading a girl?s magazine next to my favorite, Jane?s Weekly, the read for every third world dictator.It said that in a recent survey that Britain has the highest number of working couples in Europe.8/10 couples living together work and split the bills,with seven out of ten continuing the trend by working when the kids come into their lives.
A lot of that is to do with the current sky-high mortgages. It suggested that here in England, three out of four mums worked for financial and not the love of their chosen employment. Only one in fifty said they would work full time if they could stay at home.I wish I could believe that, they still find time to knock of the boss in the office though!,grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

If any girls out there are looking for the easier less stressed lives, then look no further than the Latin countries. In Spain Italy and Greece, all the hairy men insist the wives and girlfriends stay at home chained to the moped.
I think the decline of marriage is down to women going to university,(one in three) and the abolishing of married tax allowances. In some ways, college is liberating women into leading their own lives, and not settling for a mildly compatible bloke.

Recent tax breaks are geared to helping women back to work, rather than traditonal?back to basics? stuff.
We all know though, New Labors tax system is geared to working people rather than childcare. The benefits system is skewered towards pushing girls into work, single parents etc.
At the end of the day, you girls have to work weather you like it or not, and perhaps you know how it feels when you have the pressure as the breadwinner a little more. And you won?t start those stupid petty arguments to wind up your man,grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now all we are left with is the Bridget Jo
nes factor. Hoards of busy professional girls drinking with the ladettes and playing hard find they are longing for babies, husbands to bring fulfillment. In fact careers are domestic drudgery as the other domestic drudgeries in motherhood.
This new breed of women came from changing education attitudes to gearing women to more masculine subjects in class. Now that lot of super girls has come through and they are unsure where to go.
Guy?s are still guys and fulfilling their traditional roles.

One feminist said that women without men were like fish without bicycles, more like loose change with out wallets!.
The big question is weather gender differences that shape peoples careers, are from social pressures on women or biological. Are women programmed to derive happiness from the home and motherhood instead of the absence of it.
Are men succeeding in work better because they to are programmed to hunt and provide. All the women out there reading this no the answer.
It its any relief, one percent of the country earn and generate 90%of the wealth, so we are pretty insignificant regardless of where we work tomorrow.
When the recent pay inflation results were released from Whitehall, but they had to be adjusted from 1.9% to 2.5 because they forgot to include one, yes one city firms bonuses. That to me puts it all in focus as to just how much we are all slaving away equally to pay the big, or woman with a cigar.

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