As you know, I am currently writing my schoolboy
autobiography. In the times I am writing
about women were not paid the same as men
for doing the same job, they were not
considered equal so why should they be paid
the same ?
In my junior school there
was an abundance of women, only two teachers
were men. If gender equality had been in
place the education budget for the town
would have had to be significantly
increased.
By the time I attended
secondary school there was pay equality in
the teaching profession but not widely
across other areas of employment. The first job I had on leaving school had
different pay rates for women and for men.
My junior school was
mixed, co-educational, boys and girls but my
secondary school was an all male
institution. On educational grounds I
believe children perform better in single
sex schools. Next door to our school was an
all girls school but there was no
integration. We went to school on a
double decker 'bus where the boys sat
upstairs and the girls sat downstairs. The
ticket collector on the 'bus was sometimes a
man and sometimes a woman. The driver was
always a man. One day when a 'bus turned up
driven by a woman we lads were nervous about
getting on board.
Equal pay did not become law until 1970.
I am not sure if the law which made it
illegal for a woman to work down a mine was
ever repealed.
So in my arrogant opinion are women equal to
men.
NO
- absolutely, not never no way !
BUT, and here's the important thing,
Men are NOT equal
to women. I'm a man but I can not
have a baby like a woman can. That makes me
inferior to a woman. Well it does,
doesn't it. I have to shave every
morning, it's a drag but I do not want to
grow a beard. Women don't have to
shave so does that make them inferior to men
?
Eighteen months ago I fell of a ladder and
broke my ribs. An ambulance attended with
two female medics coming to my rescue.
Once I was
on
the stretcher I was too heavy for them to
lift me up. Another ambulance had to
be called with two men to transport me to
hospital. I am not sure where gender
equality fits in there and where the
line from political correctness changes to
common sense.
I have children who are both male and
female, I have grandchildren of both sexes,
I would not consider my family to be
complete if there were not both genders
represented.
Women are NOT equal to men but men are NOT
equal to women. We need both with
their different characteristics to give us a
balanced society. Equal pay, yep I go along
with that. Equality of opportunity, yes of
course.
WOMEN are EQUAL
with MEN and vice-versa = RUBBISH !
At least it is rubbish IMAO !
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