With the rise of the "quota" groups have found acceptable ways to discriminate against groups and lobby for those who are successful amongst there "group" be seen as the "token" individual whether they have worked hard to achieve a strong position or not.
The danger with quotas is the applications of them. Firstly quotas are only designed to force women into male dominated industries. Quotas are not established to rebalance other industries or occupations. In fact, whilst it is acknowledged within Australia that there is a distinct lack of male teachers which is having a negative impact on male school students. We have not yet seen quotas established for teachers. Further we have not seen financial incentives developed for Men to get them into teaching; however, we repeatedly see industry packages designed to support women into position.
Since the release of the Broderick Review senior defence officials have stated that they will allow discrimination against males in an attempt to bolster women in the senior ranks. Whilst we do this we will only ever establish a culture of mediocrity. As an aside Broderick stated that there was a "warrior culture" at the Defence Force Academy (a military having a warrior culture - who would have think [sarcasm for those who didn't get it]) and this should be abolished.
The pay gap is another argument used by feminists to push quotas. See the Gender Pay Gap for comments on this topic.
Quotas also fail to acknowledge one fact - men, on average, work longer hours than women. In 2012, according to the ABS, men worked 63% more hours than women and men make up 65% of the full time work force. In a further break down of these statistics approx four times as many men work 60+ hours as women.
The use of quotas largely pushes under qualified women into positions that a more qualified, non-quota person, could fill. And do a better job. Business will continue to find the best people to employ and when "quota people" start to perform they will naturally feel these jobs.
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Thursday, 17 January 2013
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Gender Pay Gap
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency is an Australian Government statutory authority which aims to improve gender equality in Australian workplaces.
The Agency is responsible for administering the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, which puts a focus on promoting and improving gender equality outcomes for women and men in Australian workplaces.
One of the large issues WGEA pursues is the gender pay gap issue. The latest report was released January 2013 and can be found here.
The report itself was published in several Australian papers; however, like most of the feminist gender issues, proper debate has not been opened on the issue.
Looking at the graphs published in the WGEA report it seems absolutely abhorrent that the average female university graduate earns $5000 a year less than the average male graduate. The report itself is poorly written and very basic.
The analysis is industry based and fails to differentiate between private and public sector jobs.
Why is this significant?
The first reason is that 57% of personnel employed by the Australian Public Service (APS) at the APS 1-4 levels are women. The State of the Australian Public Service Report
Secondly the average wage for the APS (below EL), as detailed in the 2011 Mercer report, was approx $8000 a year less than the average private sector wage. Therefore the APS unfair employment policies which employs more women than men (how is this not an equality issue?), has assisted female graduates in being underpaid compared to their male graduate cohort.
The APS underemployment of male graduates is responsible for a large portion of the pay disparity. Further the study has not found a single employer who has underpaid female employees compared to male employees.
If the rational person theory only applies to men - then we can truly say that women are irrational beasts. This of course is not true for a second. Therefore there is an underlying value that is not being accounted for in the WGEA study.
It's time to place value on freedom of choice and remove the ridiculous, poorly crafted, statistics based agenda feminists are trying to weaken their sex with.
The Agency is responsible for administering the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, which puts a focus on promoting and improving gender equality outcomes for women and men in Australian workplaces.
One of the large issues WGEA pursues is the gender pay gap issue. The latest report was released January 2013 and can be found here.
The report itself was published in several Australian papers; however, like most of the feminist gender issues, proper debate has not been opened on the issue.
Looking at the graphs published in the WGEA report it seems absolutely abhorrent that the average female university graduate earns $5000 a year less than the average male graduate. The report itself is poorly written and very basic.
The analysis is industry based and fails to differentiate between private and public sector jobs.
Why is this significant?
The first reason is that 57% of personnel employed by the Australian Public Service (APS) at the APS 1-4 levels are women. The State of the Australian Public Service Report
Secondly the average wage for the APS (below EL), as detailed in the 2011 Mercer report, was approx $8000 a year less than the average private sector wage. Therefore the APS unfair employment policies which employs more women than men (how is this not an equality issue?), has assisted female graduates in being underpaid compared to their male graduate cohort.
The APS underemployment of male graduates is responsible for a large portion of the pay disparity. Further the study has not found a single employer who has underpaid female employees compared to male employees.
If the rational person theory only applies to men - then we can truly say that women are irrational beasts. This of course is not true for a second. Therefore there is an underlying value that is not being accounted for in the WGEA study.
It's time to place value on freedom of choice and remove the ridiculous, poorly crafted, statistics based agenda feminists are trying to weaken their sex with.
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