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Equality or Efficiency/effectiveness, what do feminists want ?
So to explain this question, lets take an example of the much famed wage gap -- 77 cents to 1 dollar, obviously that's because of factors like more hours of work and choice of more riskier work etc etc. if it wasn't, under a free market if you could get a cost reduction for same work by hiring exclusively females -- there would be no one hiring males at all ---
The fact is, if feminists want the entire society to be equal -- then in a free market that is simply not possible unless females perform the same risky tasks for the same long/extra hours on a full time job similar to males ---
But that has one problem, under "equality of opportunity", on average most females wont make it as security guards,police officers or fire fighters etc. if there was no affirmative action in place ---
So does a business have to give up its effectiveness and efficiency for "equality" in turn causing problems for the entire society both males and females ?
4 Answers
- ?Lv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Women could work more hours, work longer careers, take less time out of the workforce, and work more like males if they wanted to and earn the same overall pay. Some women do that. Many however don't care to. Feminists of course don't want to make women do the same work men do.
They want to use the pay gap as a means to win advantages for women in the workplace without women having to do the same work. We already see it with advantages for women-owned businesses and affirmative action. We already have equal pay for equal work legislation, but feminists have pushed for legislation that would advantage them over men.
As with other policy areas, what feminists want is policies that advantage females over males.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Interesting thought. Here's a similarly interesting report about the gender wage gap: http://bitly.com/PUBEqL.
- 7 years ago
Women have been sold to a movement that for the most part has betrayed them. Feminism was actually started as a way to break up the family structure. Their is no end game, they want equality with double standards. In actuality feminism is proof that women don't have the same reasoning capabilities that men have
- mister-damusLv 77 years ago
Feminists want to eat their cake and have it, too.
They want everyone to make the same money, but don't feel it's necessary for everyone to put in equal work.
Also, they are mainly interested in the cushy or high-paying jobs - you don't see them lobbying for janitorial jobs or oil rig jobs.
