The Woke thread AKA Liberal Kaynesplaining

Yeah. Using minimum wage as your example is not really relevant as it is... Well minimum wage. It is more around commission, bonuses, pay increases etc.

I know at least 3, well maybe 2 woman that did good and got jobs in offices bless them.

Supermarkets aren't minimum wage anymore btw. About at least 60p over min wage here.

Exactly and that is a problem, if people were paid based on their output and quality of work then the disparity would change. They’d earn less during those periods when they are having to do school runs etc but when that’s all over 10-20 years later they should be on the same rate as an equivalent man.

Or society should encourage a role shift so men are as likely to take those roles as women.

Some statistical evidence - insights.dice.com/2021/05/26/pay-gap-for-women-in-technology-persists-despite-progress/?amp

Part of the ridiculous amount of training I have to do is for diversity in recruitment. Women will be put off by aggressively worded adverts asking for 'Go getting security engineers to punch hackers in their throats' and anything asking for a laundry list of requirements.

The said that, iirc, if you put out a job advert with a list of 10 competencies, a woman is unlikely to apply if she hits less than 9/10 whereas a man will YOLO in an application if they tick off half of them. 

I was regularly getting job adverts knocked back from HR for being too butch (or, more accurately, me being lazy and just listing things rather than actually writing a description) until I learned to tone it down and verily did I get more women applying.

We use a bit of software that analyzes for bias and suggests changes/alternatives.

Our tech department of just over 30 is a 50/50 split. But HR is exclusively women and all Operations team leaders all the way up to COO are all women. Birds are taking over innit.

What is this industry and can I have a job?

One of the weirdest things I ever had, years ago, was a female HR manager having to support a male staff member who'd been accused of derogatory behaviour towards a woman.

Honestly it was like one of those Uncle Tom situations.

"These things happen, it's miscommunication" said one woman to another as she defended sexism

What we need in this thread is the input of MrTomftw.

Spandex for all!

The options are spandex or crotchless chaps. 

Dress down Friday tomorrow though so jeans are OK. 

Did anyone see the stuff about JK Rowling getting "doxxed" yesterday?

Three trans rights activists held placards and took a photo outside her house "with the address visible" and she took to Twitter to complain about being targeted/harassed. My initial view was "ok, regardless what you think of their views, you can't doxx someone, it's just playing into their hands at best"

But it turns out the photo they took didn't have a house number and street name or whatever, it was just a sign saying "(Housename) House", and the reason that doxxes her is she lives in a huge fuckoff mansion that you can find just by the name - because of course she does.

Also the same mansion is mentioned in many local guides as her house, and has obviously been photographed and posted on social media by hundreds of Potter fans over the years. So my sympathy, which wasn't huge to begin with, has basically dried up completely.

I'm in a library in Ireland and men are outnumbered here greatly in all branches I have experience of. Though the current boss and his second in command are dudes, though. And horrible spiteful bile-filled pustules.

I've been in public sector jobs in a few departments and it's mostly women. Maybe clerical officer isn't a cool enough title for the blokes.