MISC. NEWS & VIEWS ON GENDER (At Male Matters)

And another reason for the gender wage gap: “In my time as an editor, many, many men have come through my door asking for a raise or demanding a promotion. Guess how many women have ever asked me for a promotion? I’ll tell you. Exactly ... zero.” --Joanne Lipman, New York Times' deputy managing editor. If this female behavior occurs at the very liberal and pro-female Times, it can occur anywhere.

And still another reason for the gender wage gap: “Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most dangerous occupations like scaffolders or miners, while females typically work in relatively safe occupations with respect to occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable that almost all studies analyzing the gender wage gap have disregarded different occupational injury risks as a potential explanatory variable for observed gender wage differentials.” More in a pdf...

“Obama's basketball game, thus, has become a convenient metaphor for an inconvenient truth. Generally speaking, guys prefer to play ball with other guys, just as women prefer to form book clubs with other women. That's not because women don't like men (and vice versa) but because when relaxing, women mostly want to drink wine together. And talk about men.” Maybe President Obama wants to avoid being accused of sexual harassment by a woman hoping to sue him for sexual harassment: “Basketball is a contact sport. Wouldn't we find a presidential body brush with a congresswoman at least equally problematic?” More...

A female ex-Letterman writer claims a hostile environment, but apparently some female staffers see it differently: “Other high-level male employees were having sexual relationships with female staffers as well, she alleges, and the women gained professional benefits from those relationships.” That being the case, how many women encourage and help create this “hostile environment”? [Emphasis by Male Matters] More... For an in-depth look at how women contribute to what ideological feminists call sexual harassment and hostile environment, see "The Sexual Harassment Quagmire: How To Dig Out."

“Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who is trying to increase the prevalence of screening for a major killer of men [abdominal aortic aneurysm] ... says he'd like to see men's health issues getting as much attention as women's. 'We all wear pink ties on the NFL Network for breast cancer month, which is great,' he says. 'But I'd love more people to wear orange suspenders for this campaign.'” More...

“'This is insane,' Mr. Taylor says, adding that the [alimony] payments cut his after-tax pension by more than one-third. 'Someone can just come back 25 years later and say, “My life went down the toilet, and you're doing good—so now I want some of your money”?'” More...

Men have barred or limited women's participation in the world of work. Women, as Male Matters has long said, have done the same to men's participation the world of children. From The New York Times: “As much as mothers want their partners to be involved with their children, experts say they often unintentionally discourage men from doing so.” Remember, this is the Times talking. It wouldn't dare explicitly say mothers also often intentionally discourage men from doing so, even though parts of the article imply that mothers do just that. Saying this would make mothers look bad by the country's most pro-female newspaper that has, until this father-friendly article, seen fit to make only fathers look bad. The Times must be losing male readers! More...

A husband who is impossible to live with, causing his wife to move out of the home, is almost always labeled negatively. What is the wife called who is impossible to live with, causing her husband to move out of the home? Doesn't it seem that no matter why a husband leaves, the wife is always called “an abandoned wife”?

Says Anne Applebaum, Washington Post columnist: “In fact, the more I watch her, the more I am convinced that her femaleness holds the key to her success. ... If a bull-necked Helmut Kohl or a flashy Gerhard Schroeder were running Germany, there would be rising anxiety and mumbling about the Fourth Reich -- just as there was 20 years ago, at the time of German reunification, when Kohl was still in charge. But Merkel provokes no jealousy or competitiveness among the alpha males who run large countries, and she inspires no fear among the citizens of smaller ones.”

What would Applebaum herself think of me if I wrote: “In fact, the more I watch him, the more I am convinced that his maleness holds the key to his success.” Would she call me down for my sexism? In my view, Applebaum is confusing personality types with gender. More...

The point that women's pay-equity advocates can't grasp — or won't accept — is that even today huge numbers of women, consciously or unconsciously, still regard a husband as their primary employer. The more he pays them (the more well-off he is), They choose to paid to stay at home or to work part-time or in low-paid work.

“The Movember Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that runs the men's health initiative, Movember. The Mo (slang for moustache) and Movember, the eleventh month of the year (formerly known as November), come together each year to create the world’s largest movement for men’s health -- bringing much needed awareness and funding to cancers that affect men, specifically prostate and testicular cancer.” More...

tags: womens pay equity  obama  letterman  sexual harassment  joe theismann  prostate cancer  

links: digg this    del.icio.us    technorati    reddit