Young Turks: Rep. - Women Don't Work As Hard As Men

[CherylK]

Run time: 05:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kk7i-vkxLc   Posted on YouTube: April 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 16083   Posted on DU: April 30, 2011 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1043

 
Sally Kearn (state representative in Oklahoma) argued that women are paid less than men for the same job because they simply don't work as hard. Ana Kasparian and Michael Shure discuss.

[Drale]

1. Depends on the Women

If your talking about Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann then yes I agree they do not work nearly as hard as any man or women or hell child for that matter.

[SheilaT]

2. Speaking as a female person myself,

that's simply not true as a generalization.

I could point out all the men I worked with who did not work as hard as I did, and verifiable because I always sold more each and every shift than they did, and decide that all men work less hard than women.

[suzanner]

3. I'm with you there, Sheila

I've been in the workplace 43 years and I have to say, there is still a double standard, and it increased a lot in the 80's. Women are required to work harder than male counterparts and still will get a lesser raise, passed over for promotion, and all the rest. In the 60's, my female supervisor took Friday afternoons off to get her hair done at a salon (not CostCutters); the male supervisor sat in a windowed office and just watched us women work in case we might look out the window or something. Just a couple example from 100's.

[Xipe Totec]

5. +1 nt

[spooky3]

6. very good point. RWers love to take one anecdote that supports their view and say it shows some

universal truth.

Notice also how Kern cherry picks one pay discrimination study out of hundreds that have been published. Even if she is telling the truth about that one study, which I have no idea about, why doesn't she instead describe what the entire body of that research shows?

[freshwest]

4. My job rated safety, quality and production. You met the standards or you were gone.

There was no getting around the numbers, they couldn't be fudged. The work didn't end up with little pink or blue ribbons after it was done and the jobs weren't assigned according to physical attributes.

Yes, the company was forced to hire minorities, gays and women, by affirmative action laws, but it didn't guarantee your job. You did whatever work there was, no consideration to sex or size or age, or you wouldn't be there.

I remember the day my male coworkers were outraged, when our company representatives came out and discussed our pension plans because they saw gender inequity. Not that it would harm them, but they had a sense of fairness and we were union.

The corporation had signed off a huge amount of money to the federal government out of our pension funds, and the major part of our pension would now be from Social Security. We had a long discussion that day, how well I remember it.

The administrator explained that women, doing the exact same work, and getting the exact same pay during our work lives, would receive less money based on an archaic Social Security regulation made when women were housewives and husbands the primary breadwinner. So while our company would not discriminate in the portion they paid to us, the government would. I don't know if this has changed. While the men were shocked, the women weren't. We just gave it another 'what-else-is-new' sigh and forgot it.

I knew of other companies that were blatant about paying women less while doing the same thing as the men beside them because the company polcy said that women, neither single or married, would be heads of households. It encouraged the men to get married, not the women. Sexual discrimination was accepted in hiring and education in those days.

Those were also in the same days that women, much less men, got paid maternity leave or paid leave to take care of family members. This idiot in Oklahoma is pretending the women's movement and affirmative action didn't have anything to do with this so-called easy life she claims women have.

And about the gender rates of college attenders, what a convenient memory lapse, ignoring that women were denied higher education for centuries. The Taliban loves people like this female.

This is just more divide and conquer for the GOP. I sure as hell don't like the way that men are treated at work, either. I'll stop now before I really get angry.

:rant: