An Interesting Take on BLM

[kandrathe]

I'm not saying male RN's, or even male workers in general, do not get sexually harassed - by either male or female co-workers, bosses, customers, etc. But I also think its a stretch at best to say that men are more sexually harassed in the workplace than women are. To say that the times have reversed from the 1950's just doesn't reflect the real world conditions. I mean, in the 1950's women were hardly allowed to work, lest they escape the kitchen and obtain independence and autonomy out from under their husbands thumb.

I think that was a bit of hyperbole. But, still, I think we should be concerned of the plight of anyone harassed or assaulted.

As for women being paid less because they take time off to raise children, I'm not convinced this is the sole cause of the salary gap, or even the most important one. But even if it were, it speaks to a larger issue that in America (with the exception of Washington), women do not get paid maternity leave - this in itself is a form of sexism and patriarchy, and the perfect example of how the symbiotic role they play in capitalist social relations. If it were men who had to take time off for the same reason, you know damn well it would be made into law that they would get paid for the leave. It is one of the reasons, among others, why me and my fiance have had to put off having a child, though we want to.

I agree women shouldn't triply suffer the pain of child birth, and the loss of wages, and loss of advancement. Having observed it twice, I'm glad I'm a man. We should pay them much more.

Did you watch the video that I linked? It is not narrated by some mouthpiece. It is narrated by a respected scholar and feminist. It is easy to claim discrimination when you are not looking at the whole picture.

For example, two people make different wages when they are in the same position and have the same qualifications and seniority. Easy explanation is, DISCRIMINATION. However, as an example, one might be working lots of OT, or is simply more productive.
You did know that average wages for men and women are calculated irregardless of which professions they are in, right? It's like saying that these 1000 ppl make 70% less than these 1000 ppl, and not counting the fact that the 1st 1000 ppl are engineers and the other 1000 ppl are doctors.

Watch the video. Facts are stubborn things.

I do not mean to undermine the credibility of your video, but... you need to consider there maybe is an alternate agenda.
Radio Host Dennis Prager Has a New Online ‘College’ to Combat Liberal Bias and Teach Judeo-Christian Values

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers

But, you mistake where I'm coming from. Women take more time off to care for family, and I'm saying they shouldn't be penalized for helping to usher in the next generation of humanity. The long game is we want healthy children reared correctly and not shuttled from crib to daycare to public school without parental nurturing. Trust me. Even Scrooge McDuck wants a well adjusted productive Huey, Dewy and Louey. Not as addicts, or living in the parents basement, or scraping rock bottom as under educated quacks. The myopia of short term thinking is driving the family apart, creating neurotic, unskilled, and unproductive youth.

Actual scholarship on wage gap.

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard and director of the national Bureau of Economic Research’s Development of the American Economy program. Her most recent book, written with Larry Katz, is The Race between Education and Technology.

"The gender gap in hourly compensation would vanish if firms did not have a financial incentive to pay employees working 80 hours a week more than twice what they would receive for 40-hour weeks."