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Triangular_Trees
What is right is sometimes found on the left.
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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: Re: Men's forum |
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| ZakFiend wrote: | | Zsazsa wrote: | We live in a world dominated by men (which is already like a Men's Forum) and women are treated like second class citizens.
Sometimes, just being born female seems like a handicap. |
What a bunch of crap, what world do you live in? Bizarro land? North America is no such land. Where do you live? |
Actually there are tons of studies that prove North America is just such a land. One of the most telling was done a few years ago by a research team in New York, they sent out identical resumes to companies that were advertising open positions. Resumes with male names were something like 3 times more likely than the identical resumes with female names to receive a call to come in for an interview. The gap was geven wider between traditional anglo and traditional minority names |
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ZakFiend
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: Re: Men's forum |
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| Triangular_Trees wrote: | | ZakFiend wrote: | | Zsazsa wrote: | We live in a world dominated by men (which is already like a Men's Forum) and women are treated like second class citizens.
Sometimes, just being born female seems like a handicap. |
What a bunch of crap, what world do you live in? Bizarro land? North America is no such land. Where do you live? |
Actually there are tons of studies that prove North America is just such a land. One of the most telling was done a few years ago by a research team in New York, they sent out identical resumes to companies that were advertising open positions. Resumes with male names were something like 3 times more likely than the identical resumes with female names to receive a call to come in for an interview. The gap was geven wider between traditional anglo and traditional minority names |
Have you ever considered that studies were done by these companies that proved men were more cost efficient? Women get pregnant, many companies don't want that... it's not about "male domination" it's about capitalism and the bottom line. |
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Triangular_Trees
What is right is sometimes found on the left.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: Re: Men's forum |
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Have you ever considered that studies were done by these companies that proved men were more cost efficient? Women get pregnant, many companies don't want that... it's not about "male domination" it's about capitalism and the bottom line. |
Considering I've researched these companies, I can ensure you thats not the case. Furthermore, its also illegal to discriminate on that basis and these were all companies that had clearly stated anti-discriminatory policies (some even sent their personnel directors to be retrained when they found out how their companies fared in the study). Also, men today are just as likely to take off for their wifes pregnancy, to care for a newborn, as women are. Quite a few major companies guarantee men a 6 month leave of absence in the even of a newbirth.
i do recommend you research this a bit though, since your comments make you appear to be completely clueless about such things. its alwys best to do your homework before putting forth an argument  . Do you have access to any research databases? |
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pandabear
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From my experience, anti-discrimination laws (in the USA) are a farce.
If you look through here:
http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/decisions.html
you'll find that that vast majority of appelate decisions are against the victim. |
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