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jackb


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Women have just won the rights to equal pay.

But it's being appealed.

This is the 21st century.

If I carry ten bags of corn from A to B for a quid a bag and haul ten bags I go home with ten quid.

If Magica hauls ten bags of corn for fifty p a bag she has to stay longer to haul more bags to go home with ten quid.

What is the argument to make this ok?



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jackb wrote:

Women have just won the rights to equal pay.

But it's being appealed.

This is the 21st century.

If I carry ten bags of corn from A to B for a quid a bag and haul ten bags I go home with ten quid.

If Magica hauls ten bags of corn for fifty p a bag she has to stay longer to haul more bags to go home with ten quid.

What is the argument to make this ok?

 If you keep starting all these silly late-night threads we will simply delete them xxxx



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jackb wrote:

Women have just won the rights to equal pay.

But it's being appealed.

This is the 21st century.

If I carry ten bags of corn from A to B for a quid a bag and haul ten bags I go home with ten quid.

If Magica hauls ten bags of corn for fifty p a bag she has to stay longer to haul more bags to go home with ten quid.

What is the argument to make this ok?

 Not fair is it wink



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jackb wrote:

Women have just won the rights to equal pay.

But it's being appealed.

This is the 21st century.

If I carry ten bags of corn from A to B for a quid a bag and haul ten bags I go home with ten quid.

If Magica hauls ten bags of corn for fifty p a bag she has to stay longer to haul more bags to go home with ten quid.

What is the argument to make this ok?

 It's not okay, you shouldn't be carrying bags of corn with your bad back.



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Having read a bit more it's the shop staff mostly women who want equal pay with the warehouse staff mostly men.
But they're two completely different jobs!
Do the female warehouse workers get the same pay as the men?
That would make sense but fighting to be paid the same as men in another job doesn't make sense.

Next shop workers win six-year battle for equal pay in landmark case
www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/27/next-shop-workers-win-six-year-battle-for-equal-pay-in-landmark-case

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jackb wrote:

Having read a bit more it's the shop staff mostly women who want equal pay with the warehouse staff mostly men.
But they're two completely different jobs!
Do the female warehouse workers get the same pay as the men?
That would make sense but fighting to be paid the same as men in another job doesn't make sense.

Next shop workers win six-year battle for equal pay in landmark case
www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/27/next-shop-workers-win-six-year-battle-for-equal-pay-in-landmark-case

 Thats how most of these cases are now. The same jobs have the same pay. It's just that men and women tend to drift towards different jobs, which have different levels of pay. 

 

Like it or not, women tend to be more involved in child rearing and need jobs that work around that. Even childless women are still more likely to get a job in retail than plumbing. 



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Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored



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Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored

 Hollywood often pays female actors less..

 

But that's sorta based on popularity not gender. 

 

Much like female athletes. You can do the same job, but if people won't pay to watch you, you're worth less economically..



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Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:

Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored

 Hollywood often pays female actors less..

 

But that's sorta based on popularity not gender. 

 

Much like female athletes. You can do the same job, but if people won't pay to watch you, you're worth less economically..

 At least the women in Hollywood don't still have to kip with grotesque film producers before they get the job that pays them less than their male co-stars.

Or do they?



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Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:

Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored

 Hollywood often pays female actors less..

 

But that's sorta based on popularity not gender. 

 

Much like female athletes. You can do the same job, but if people won't pay to watch you, you're worth less economically..

 At least the women in Hollywood don't still have to kip with grotesque film producers before they get the job that pays them less than their male co-stars.

Or do they?

 We know they sure as hell did..

 

I'd like to think it's a rare occurrence now..



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Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:

Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored

 Hollywood often pays female actors less..

 

But that's sorta based on popularity not gender. 

 

Much like female athletes. You can do the same job, but if people won't pay to watch you, you're worth less economically..

 At least the women in Hollywood don't still have to kip with grotesque film producers before they get the job that pays them less than their male co-stars.

Or do they?

 We know they sure as hell did..

 

I'd like to think it's a rare occurrence now..

 They did....hopefully not so much now, though I bet it still happens.

Actors and actresses are paid on their money generating popularity like you say, the BBC should pay ethe sexes qually, but they dont.



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Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Syl wrote:

Didn't a female BBC presenter win her case a couple of years ago to get equal pay?
She was doing the same job as the men, but paid less, who would have thought the BBC would be cheating women in this day and age?? bored

 Hollywood often pays female actors less..

 

But that's sorta based on popularity not gender. 

 

Much like female athletes. You can do the same job, but if people won't pay to watch you, you're worth less economically..

 At least the women in Hollywood don't still have to kip with grotesque film producers before they get the job that pays them less than their male co-stars.

Or do they?

 We know they sure as hell did..

 

I'd like to think it's a rare occurrence now..

 They did....hopefully not so much now, though I bet it still happens.

Actors and actresses are paid on their money generating popularity like you say, the BBC should pay both sexes equally, but they don't.

 



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