StumpyBloke
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2 please dear!
I'll have a fried egg sandwich too!
I'll have a fried egg sandwich too!
I don't think it's idealised to want women to be able to do the well paid jobs men have historically done. Not everyone enjoys what you call the mundane jobs (but job satisfaction is everything, I agree). Of course there is a hierarchy at work but why should it be based on gender? For the record, I don't have a chip on my shoulder because I'm the backroom girl - I have a good job (I'm a lawyer) but I find it depressing that women are not well represented in senior roles but are very over-represented in the low skilled, poorly-paid jobs.
2 please dear!
I'll have a fried egg sandwich too!
Really? Ask the kids who don't have a parent home before or after school, at tea times because they are out at work. Do you not think kids miss their parents? Having a family unit which gives them the belief and confidence that they can achieve is far more important. Perhaps we wouldn't have so many feral kids if both parents weren't forced into working all the hours god sends. There should be a healthy balance somewhere.
you'd never say to a man, 'if you have a career and a child you'll be a bad father', so why are women made out to be selfish or bad mothers because they want to be a parent and work too? Aren't both parents responsible for spending time with their children?
who says it IS based on gender? Perhaps the best person for the job is the one doing the job, be it high or low? I know that I wouldn't have been suited to the front-line, but behind the lines, loading the ammo, I was mustard! I'm not saying females shouldn't have ambition..if you do have it, fine, go after what you want, but don't think we're all the same!
we're not all the same. not every woman wants a career. not every woman wants to be a house wife. Which is why I get frustrated when some people on this thread suggest women should be at home raising the children while their hard working husbands go out to work. That particular 'ideal' isn't very appealing to a lot of women today.