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Judecat:
But what I see on the street with the guys who won't lower themselves to accept minimum wage aren't working at all, and it's not just teenagers.
State of Maryland has a program called Temporary Ememergenycy Housing and Parmacy program. There is also a straight standard They give you $100 a monthand a pharmacy card to get your prescriptions for$ 3 dollars each, and free clinic.
Ask some of the 40 and 50 year old males why they don't get a job, " well all I can get is minimum wage and that's an insult, I ain't to N word" (And then after I get their benefits typed into the computer they wanna know what I'm doing Tonight.)
Now the straight pharmacy card you can make over 10,000 a year and still keep the card and the clinic visits -- just costs $5 instead of three. So rather than work at a job they feel is demeaning they end of living in a substandard boarding house and pan handling cigiarettes on the street. Or living home with their retired on a pension momma's.
Girls get out of school and get low paying jobs, guys get out of school and refuse to work unless they are getting enough to satisfy their ego.
ZephyrZodiac:
In this country that's what doing away with apprenticeships back in the 70's, and raising the School Leaving Age to 16 at the same time, caused! 16 year olds would even expect to work on a building site labouring and get the same pay as a strong, fit 30-year-old with a skill like bricklaying! And a 16 year old may have loads of energy when he gets to work in the morning (if he hasn't been up half the night clubbing) but whereas the 30 year old will still be going strong at 3 in the afternoon, the 16 year old is totally knackered by lunchtime!
And those who won't work, they either, as you say, live off an elderly parent, (and I don't include those decent sons who give up a future to look after one) or they find a woman who is fool enough to support them! (The low pay of the unqualified may be demeaning for them, but obviously they aren't demeaned by living off a woman who can scarcely afford to support herself and her kids!)
Until he day that women in that situation, supporting a bone idle sponger, all turn around en masse and throw them all out into the street, this situation will continue!
witch:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 14, 05:06:15
Until he day that women in that situation, supporting a bone idle sponger, all turn around en masse and throw them all out into the street, this situation will continue!
Well said! And that is part of our responsibilities as women. My part is in education, like working with partners of men doing the 'living without violence' course (albeit years ago), volunteer work at womens' refuge and so on. I'm not an official volunteer at the moment but I get a lot of 'woman sharing' at my workplace and with the students.
The students. It lifts my heart to see the young women who have a sense of themselves so clearly, assume they are equal to men, naturally assume the right to make decisions about their lives and are making sensible choices about study and lifestyle. Of course not all are like this, but even the students with baggage learn something of community and caring and options. Watching someone become a responsible adult over a couple of years is a powerful thing to see.
laeshanin:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 13, 20:58:11
It isn't just single mothers who have to take time of work if their child is sick! In most families, the wife is still expected to do this, mainly because her earnings are lower and therefore the family budget suffers less, but also I think it's still because it's seen as their role! And employers tend to be more understanding if a woman takes time off for a sick child than if a man does!
Interesting arguments about payscales and glass ceilings, though! Which sex on the whole leave school better qualified? In the UK teenage girls still do better at school than boys, and mostly I would suspect, are more willing to start work or go on to college than boys, yet the minute they take time out to have a baby they're penalized! As if it's women's fault that they are the sex that gets pregnant! (In an ideal world, couples would be able to take pregnancy in turns,
but unfortunately it isn't an ideal world!)
Not sure that I agree with that first part, but only because men taking time out to go to a school event are looked upon as heros whereas it's just a necessary part of the daily grind for a woman. Possibly a tad cynical, but hey... I think that either gender are frowned on if you take time off for any reason, but especially if a child is sick. Family Friendly Policy? Please, do me a favour :-X I work in Social Services and the HR people know it exists (so do the union) but no-one has ever seen the bloody thing. I believe it to be a work of fiction.
And I've seen the frilly lipped look in action for pregnancy. Women are considered to be a liability. Still!
Yes, girls perform better across the board. It's called the XY Divide and is a known phenomena. You look at any school, or learning disabilities home and you'll see that far more males are intellectually challenged. They also have a higher rate of attrition from birth as well as higher levels of physical disability. Don't it make ya glad you got the double 'X' (unless you got two defective and are colourblind etc)?
witch:
There's concern in New Zealand about boys not performing as well as girls in education. In fact, boys' achievements haven't changed, circumstances, customs and educational practices have changed, allowing girls to reach more of their potential.
I wonder if that's what the patriarchy were really always scared of. 8)
PS> The 'frilly lipped look' love it to pieces Laeshanin!
PPS: And the older the person, the frillier it gets. :D
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