Totally disagreeSure, but there are enough commonalities to make generalisations.
Totally disagreeSure, but there are enough commonalities to make generalisations.
Considering that females tend to boss the VCE scores year after year, this is a seriously weird way of encouraging them into certain courses. Dumb things down for the smartest ones.Yeah yeah sure Ted.
University lowers entry score for female applicants in male-dominated course (paywalled)
We're clearly shifting away from our ideal of equal opportunity towards bias and outright discrimination. The evidence is everywhere.
If there was a coronavirus that targeted militant feminists, I'd be very, very hard-pressed not to cheer it on.
Yeah yeah sure Ted.
University lowers entry score for female applicants in male-dominated course (paywalled)
We're clearly shifting away from our ideal of equal opportunity towards bias and outright discrimination. The evidence is everywhere.
If there was a coronavirus that targeted militant feminists, I'd be very, very hard-pressed not to cheer it on.
I think that you need to start taking a more historical perspective on some of these issues.
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I used to vote Labor, you know. Back when they stood for something.
Today they belong in permanent opposition, to provide checks and balances.
Considering that females tend to boss the VCE scores year after year, this is a seriously weird way of encouraging them into certain courses. Dumb things down for the smartest ones.
Guess it's something like the way we improve our education system by dumbing down the entry requirements until any imbecile can qualify.
Through a great mixture of ignorance and irony.
I used to vote Labor, you know. Back when they stood for something.
Today they belong in permanent opposition, to provide checks and balances.
I don't really get the ignorance jibe. I just stated a historical fact. That is that during the worst global economic downturn since the industrial revolution, the world's only communist government seemed to get through it the best. This did not go unnoticed at the time, and along with the rise of fascism, it had a huge influence on the growth of mass left wing movements in the 1930's. The communists in Russia turned a very backward, almost feudal society, into a global superpower in less than 50 years. Amazing. Why do you think nearly every newly independent country looked to the soviet modal to achieve rapid modernization and industrialization? I'm sure even our beloved Tigers signed up to a few Soviet style 5 year plans. I'm not really a left winger, but I don't think that I am particularly ignorant either. And I certainly don't support totalitarianism regardless of the political persuasion of those in power.
I can't really see any irony in the statement either. The 1930's was a different time, and the Soviet experiment in economic management ran out of steam completely in the 1960's. But not before the Western Capitalist governments had gone to school on how governments could exert more control over the boom and bust cycles of unfettered capitalism.
I only made the comment in response to someone saying that left-wing governments can't balance the books/ are not competent economic managers. Avoiding the worst economic downturn of the modern era seems to me to be a salient point in relation to this.
Since the mid-90's when 55% of tertiary graduates were male it has swung around to 60% female, and still the push for "equality" continues unsated. Our education system is hopelessly failing boys/young men as it is. It's a cancer that I regard as my duty to oppose.
Sorry, too many facts and far too reasonable for the ideologically pure around here.
Good try though, a reasonable position. I'm no fan of Soviet style socialism but they did manage to avoid the great depression, facts are facts and while you may find a particular regime repugnant that doesn't mean everything they did was wrong.
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You can also get to work on the cancer that is men/women being paid differently for doing the same jobs after graduation.
except at the negotiated salary level
Bingo
My bad.
Here, this explains it a bit more. "Gender pay gaps are the difference between the median or average earnings of women and men in the workforce. They are not the difference between two people being paid differently for the same job."
You are good at stats, you can work it out I'm sure.
I already know the numbers having worked on payroll databases.
Of course if e.g. Alan Joyce gets paid 400 squillion a year it's going to distort averages and medians.
Averages yes, medians not so much. Medians are useful because they diminish the impact of outliers. Regardless, women earn less than men in nearly all industries. But you keep beavering away on the cancer of male oppression, it's a noble cause.
PS apols for the ninja edit on my previous post.
Same job, same pay.
As always the challenge is open to anyone to provide institutionalised examples of this discrimination at fixed salary level and prove me wrong.
My understanding is that Woolworths did not discriminate on gender when ripping off its workers.
I'd imagine that women over the terms of their career would suffer due to pregnancy and time out of the workforce due to raising kids and so on.