Frank wrote on Apr 8
th, 2022 at 8:54pm:
mothra wrote on Apr 8
th, 2022 at 8:10am:
I for one think it's incredibly interesting that there is no obvious debate about what defines a man.
But i expect i am Robinson Crusoe on that one.
Are you a woman, mother?
She meant Robindaughter Crusoe.... riding on my comments to every feminist whine that they are not Robertadaughter Crusoe or similar...
Anyway - was looking at the basis on which the comparative hours worked women/men works, and the interesting outcome was that far more men work contract than women. Well, you say - so what? Well - I respond that means that:-
1. many of the hours contracted are not recorded (cash jobs),
2 that the income level for contractors working 6-7 days a week on double rate is invariably going to come in at a higher level (ergo men will 'average' earn more than women),
3. that many men are working nowhere near average hours and the imbalance between men at the top and men at the bottom is more pronounced than with women top/bottom (from whom I exclude the Inlesos - the Involuntary Lesbians - brrrrr) ...(even though the claim is made that women work more part-time ( ???? ... anomaly found),
4. that while some men are earning very well, with contracting skewing the figures, most are not, and their position is clearly far worse than similar women,
5. that when it comes to wages/salary work and even part-time casual (the choice of many women), women are doing better than men on average while contractors are skewing the figures.
Just thought I'd throw that little analysis into the pot for your consumption... probably give some of you consumption or heart congestion....
How d'ya reckon the comparative figures on 'wage gaps' would work out if contractors were excluded... they are, after all, businesses.... and not plain old wage and salary earners. Trust the ABS? I used to work there collecting boring figures on traffic movements, industrial relations issues, farm produce, and such (you'll find a reference to that in some British movie)... clearly including contractors in Average Weekly Earnings is skewing the figures and providing a platform of falsehood for the self interesteds screeching about 'wage gaps'.