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Post by jojo on Aug 6, 2024 14:08:01 GMT
It's not a secret that, in general, mothers prefer to work closer to home and work hours that fit with child care. In that sense, the NHS is not so different from Tesco or driving/delivery roles.
It is also not unknown that there are more female GPs than male in the NHS - male doctors, for obv. reasons, somewhat preferring hospital-orientated careers, which tend to be full-time and some.
Incidentally, this is also the basis of the much promoted/bogus 'gender pay gap', but that's another story (parents make choices around what is best for their family).
It's not an explanation as to why it's 'bogus', it's the issue that is exposed, but some refuse to see. When we see the differences, instead of thinking we're really clever because we've noticed that secretaries earn less than CEOs or that mothers compromise their earning potential to find work that fits in with child-care, or that it's 'obvious' that male doctors prefer hospital careers - we're supposed to be asking ourselves why the fathers aren't expected to take on a lower rate of pay for work that fits in with child-care, or if women really wouldn't rather work in a hospital. |
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Post by aspieandy on Aug 6, 2024 14:59:31 GMT
It's not a secret that, in general, mothers prefer to work closer to home and work hours that fit with child care. In that sense, the NHS is not so different from Tesco or driving/delivery roles.
It is also not unknown that there are more female GPs than male in the NHS - male doctors, for obv. reasons, somewhat preferring hospital-orientated careers, which tend to be full-time and some.
Incidentally, this is also the basis of the much promoted/bogus 'gender pay gap', but that's another story (parents make choices around what is best for their family).
It's not an explanation as to why it's 'bogus', it's the issue that is exposed, but some refuse to see. When we see the differences, instead of thinking we're really clever because we've noticed that secretaries earn less than CEOs or that mothers compromise their earning potential to find work that fits in with child-care, or that it's 'obvious' that male doctors prefer hospital careers - we're supposed to be asking ourselves why the fathers aren't expected to take on a lower rate of pay for work that fits in with child-care, or if women really wouldn't rather work in a hospital.
This is one of the funnier discussions about the bogus gender pay gap - 8-minutes total but entertaining from early on >>
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Post by jojo on Aug 6, 2024 15:02:25 GMT
The thing about the attempts to "gotcha" the gender pay-gap is they invariably miss the purpose of the legislation while demonstrating the institutionalised sexism the data was always intended to reveal. It's just some of it is so embedded in our thinking that lots of people didn't notice.
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Post by aspieandy on Aug 6, 2024 15:09:03 GMT
The thing about the attempts to "gotcha" the gender pay-gap is they invariably miss the purpose of the legislation while demonstrating the institutionalised sexism the data was always intended to reveal. It's just some of it is so embedded in our thinking that lots of people didn't notice. The primary purpose of the legislation is to make unequal illegal, and it does that successfully. It's even easy to prove.
As the first comment under the video says, if women did the same job for less why would a company even employ men.
It's fun. You should watch the video. It has maths, an accountable politician and arguments are tested.
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Post by parsley1 on Aug 8, 2024 11:05:59 GMT
amp.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/08/third-of-nhs-doctors-struggling-as-gmc-warns-health-services-in-critical-stateVery worrying reading: The report was based on a survey of a representative sample of 4,288 of the UK’s 380,000 doctors undertaken last autumn. It showed that 19% of doctors had cut their hours over the previous year – the highest proportion since records began in 2019 and up one point on the year before. Family doctors are much more likely (28%) to have reduced their hours compared with the average (19%) in the medical profession – the highest across all its different branches. And 48% of GPs are struggling, again far higher than the 33% average for doctors as a whole.
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