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[astra_nomer]

Somebody remind me why I shouldn't give into the social conservatives and give up this working mother crap.


Edit: Okay, so this post was generated mostly because I've been feeling down and unmotivated lately, and the daily routine is wearing me down. And possibly because I haven't had a good run in a few days because the weather is conspiring against me. And the "social conservatives" comment was mostly from hearing about Judge Roberts on the radio this morning.

TGIF.

Comments

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Maybe I shouldn't get into this, but nobody called being a workking mother "staggeringly pernicious". John Roberts was referring to a California law, not any working mothers, their ambitions, their chosen paths, or any of that. He was referring to a state law. Now, we could debate the merits of that particular law. Or not. (I vote for not, but you could probably trick me into arguing.) But I wanted to be clear about what was or wasn't said.

Staggeringly pernicious

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

No, he didn't call working mothers that. But he did call the concept of equal pay for equal work that. And as I've said before, I'll be damned if anyone wants to give me reduced pay because of being a mother or woman or whatever else I happen to be.

Re: Staggeringly pernicious

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I thought the law he was particularly complaining about was one which said "We should pay professions which are mostly women more, because they are currently behind the different but possibly equal professions which are mostly men."

He's not saying "we should reduce the pay of women", he's saying "we should not increase the pay of nurses to match the pay of garbage collectors."

It's a topic worth arguing over (and Cael also seems willing), but it's unfair to simplify it to "wanting to give you reduced pay because you're a mother or a woman".

Re: Staggeringly pernicious

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Again, he wasn't talking about a concept, he was talking about a specific law. I believe in a lot of things that I don't believe ought to be legislated. I believe a lot of things that should be legislated, but disagree with the actual law in place.

The other problem is that the law referenced "comparable worth" which is not the same as "equal pay for equal work". The concept of "comparable worth" has to do with pay disparities between traditionally-female occupations vs. traditionally-male occupations, not disparities within an occupation.