Equal Pay For Women

[dave50]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45941552
How can equal pay be agreed if the men and women are doing different jobs? Surely it's only cut and dried if they are doing the same job. Otherwise it's just a grey area.

[AuntLydia]

Spath it is pointless to say physical effort deserves more pay. If that were so those with physically exerting jobs would be the highest earners. Two colleagues working in say B& Q male 1 female 1 male. The male gets the heavy lifting the female gets to sort out dissatisfied customers as she is more diplomatic. Different skills but equally necessary.

[spathiphyllum]

It's not about if the job is necessary or not.

[AuntLydia]

Spath what are you on about?

[spathiphyllum]

i CBA to go on a roundabout with people who don't want it to stop. either smarten up and realise my point or accept that you don't understand what i mean.

[woofgang]

third option, you are wrong and drivelling

[spathiphyllum]

You misread my point, and now you're having a wobbly.. Ironic. Seems the article highlights similar issues.

[AuntLydia]

// i CBA to go on a roundabout //

thanks for clearing that up then............

[Spicerack]

We didn't need management types to grade jobs. Over tens, sometimes hundreds of years, they were sorted by a supply & demand system. (including men-men and I'm sure women-women)
Some blokes were happy with a steady job in a warm factory a hundred yards from their house. Others travelled 40/50 miles to graft on a site in all weathers.
One could argue that the Labour Government started eroding those differentials when they opened the market up to cheap foreign labour. Now they're trying dehumanise the working classes further by imposing grades on them.

[anotheoldgit]

/// the female gets to sort out dissatisfied customers as she is more diplomatic. ///

Wow that is as vast generalisation, judging by some of the females on here and the fact that one seems to get much better treatment from call centre's male operatives, than the rather curt females that I have experienced.

[woofgang]

spicerack "One could argue that the Labour Government started eroding those differentials when they opened the market up to cheap foreign labour. Now they're trying dehumanise the working classes further by imposing grades on them."

One could but then one would be wrong. The issue (and the fight) go back to 1968 and before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_sewing_machinists_strike_of_1968

[spathiphyllum]

It was the 60's where women started to get serious employment.

[spathiphyllum]

men had built these industries bear in mind, the women strolled into the factory's and demanded equality. One option could have been to set up their own establishments/

[woofgang]

just keep digging spath

[Rockrose]

Do you honestly believe that Spath?
What does your girlfriend think of your views?

[Zacs-Master]

'It was the 60's where women started to get serious employment'

You're about 30 years out there, spath.

[spathiphyllum]

You’re right zacs.. what i mean is more females than ever were entering the paid workforce in the 60’s

[Rockrose]

errrr try again - who do you think kept industry alive in the Second World War?

[Zacs-Master]

He's acknowledged that.