Good news for businesses as RTE announce women are now working for free until the end of the year

Gender equality for employment, and salaries/benefits are a reality. If a woman feels that she is being discriminated against, she has the right to complain both at the level of HR or to a State department. It's not as if HR isn't, in the vast majority of cases, populated by women, and it is them who tend to determine pay scales, and promotions. Same with investigations over complaints.

Some women may be discriminated against due to their gender. The possibility is always going to exist. The same for men to be discriminated due to their gender. However, we already have a society that seeks to protect against it, and the mechanisms are in place for people who believe that such discrimination has been applied to them.

There are issues affecting women and girls such as over-sexualisation and the blurring of boundaries between sex and gender, but woke feminism doesn't take issue with that - instead it latches on to this clear fallacy.

True enough, although considering the range of women employed by media outlets, and in fashion, the over sexualisation of women is often as a result of women themselves, as much as it is coming from men. There are definite advantages to being considered sexy, beautiful, etc, and the conditioning that exists in society to place emphasis on physical beauty affects both men and women.. except that most of the advantages (in addition to the disadvantages) of that conditioning relate to women and their place in society.

In feminism, they need an enemy to justify their demands, and that enemy is the male gender. They're never going to acknowledge the effect that women have on developing the societies we live in (or the negative consequences of that involvement).

Just as they're never going to stop going on about the Gender wage gap, the need for more women in <insert> industry, or departmental level... even when women have reached parity, or actually outnumber men in those positions. They can't back down because being a feminist in modern society is a profession as much as an ideology.

What they’ve done in Iceland is very smart in my opinion. Start from the bottom up - restructure the system. Since 2000, mothers get three months leave, fathers get three months untransferable leave and a further three months can be taken by either parent. It has been augmented since but it’s seen a whole change in their working lives from the bottom up. Fathers are more active in childcare and women are more active in management at work. It’s much more effective than any quota system. Women aren’t monopolising childcare and men aren’t monopolising management. Worth a read.

http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2019/future-of-work-iceland/article.2019-04-11.9299118347

Women earn more than men in the under 30 age bracket. Should there be a campaign to pay men under 30 more?

The focus is wrong though. Women under 30 tend to earn more because children aren't part of the equation, with most people deciding to have children around that period. Whenever we hear about employment inconsistencies, the attitude is to look at parents, and how they should benefit from that status. But the reality is that the numbers of people who are single/childless are growing, and it is them who invariably are picking up the slack.. and typically, there are more males who remain single than women... hence the difference in salaries and benefits over time.

While I understand the logic that says we need people to have more children, I don't think anyone is really considering how single people fit in, and I suspect the singles (male/female) are losing out to those who get married and have children.