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Gender Equality Greatest in Scandinavian Countries

POSTED BY: Magonsdaughter
UPDATED: Saturday, October 23, 2010 17:19
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MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:01 AM

With Iceland topping the list. The US is 19th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11517459

CATPIRATE

Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:10 AM

First why do you care. Second there are no real jobs there. Women are not equal to men. Real jobs require real men not fag bag wearers. Women just showing up don't mean they can do the job. Road Gangs who is caring the stop sign. Chew out a woman at work when she can't cut it and you gotta go see some college flunky in human resources. If you contract you don't have to go by company rules. The job gets done and you get payed or see ya. But most of the time your in a company a few good woman don't make all.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:23 AM

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Originally posted by CatPirate:
First why do you care. Second there are no real jobs there. Women are not equal to men. Real jobs require real men not fag bag wearers. Women just showing up don't mean they can do the job. Road Gangs who is caring the stop sign. Chew out a woman at work when she can't cut it and you gotta go see some college flunky in human resources. If you contract you don't have to go by company rules. The job gets done and you get payed or see ya. But most of the time your in a company a few good woman don't make all.

You sound quite bitter and twisted. Let me guess, a woman is your boss and she (quite rightly) thinks you are a little jerk.

Why do I care? Because gender equity matters to me.

DMAANLILEILTT

Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:24 PM

Did that make any kind of sense to you? All I got out of it was "ARRRGH women!"

"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:02 PM

Roundabouts twenty years ago, those countries made a radical change for the better in the amount of respect they treated their children with.

Today, they are more or less twenty years ahead of us in social development, tolerance and empathy for others.

This is *not* a coincidence.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

NIKI2

Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:12 PM

Magons, that's no surprise. Their way of living is quite different in a number of ways, and in most of them, Frem is right: they're way ahead of us.

Bear in mind, too, that gender equality means little to most men, and some are fearful enough of it to try to dismiss it or use it as an excuse to make nasty remarks about women. Or, as you said, have their own personal problems with the issue.

It's often a matter of "I've got mine, fuck you", and the fear that we might SHARE what they've got. We still have a long ways to go, just as with racism, and a lot of battles to fight.

What gets me is people lauding women like Palin, O'Donnel and Angle and saying it's gender discrimination that makes people dislike them, when a male who expressed exactly the same idiotic things would be equally seen as assinine by thinking people and equally adored by their supporters.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

CATPIRATE

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:11 AM

Nope, just telling the truth. Women get any power at work they stop work. They come in with there drama. Now I strictly work contracts only. This way I am no longer under the bs rules of the company. You come in be straight up they give you a hard time bam go to the office. What do you want or I am going home. My last company I got the boss canned for not doing his job with a pain in the ass woman. I was very polite to her but it's not worth it for long term. Yes I can go back to my younger days there are a few women who get it done. They get the respect from me. But mostly the ones who follow can't cut it. Now I am working with one right now who was moved off the shift onto mine. She was gonna get fired. Guess who is stuck with her. Well first shut up and listen. Also your hired to do the job not be a helper. Keep your bs at home. Now start understanding your paid to pick it up not be carried. I guess that makes me bitter.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:19 AM

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Originally posted by CatPirate:
Nope, just telling the truth. Women get any power at work they stop work.

What do you mean? They sit around and don't work or they leave? I don't get why either would happen more than with men.
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They come in with there drama.
But I bet they can spell

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Now I strictly work contracts only. This way I am no longer under the bs rules of the company. You come in be straight up they give you a hard time bam go to the office. What do you want or I am going home. My last company I got the boss canned for not doing his job with a pain in the ass woman. I was very polite to her but it's not worth it for long term. Yes I can go back to my younger days there are a few women who get it done. They get the respect from me. But mostly the ones who follow can't cut it. Now I am working with one right now who was moved off the shift onto mine. She was gonna get fired. Guess who is stuck with her. Well first shut up and listen. Also your hired to do the job not be a helper. Keep your bs at home. Now start understanding your paid to pick it up not be carried. I guess that makes me bitter.

yep, sounds like yadda yadda yadda to me. This is not about whether you like your female boss or not. I've had crappy female bosses and crappy male bosses. This article is about whether women are able to make it in employment and income to the same level as men, and it sounds like in Iceland they do.

Whether you prefer working under a male or female boss is irrelevant.

KLESST

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:20 AM

The average Scandinavian woman is stronger, smarter and better looking than the average American woman, it's no surprise that they would perform better in the workplace. Pirate Cat has it right, women that perform equally well in the work place earn the respect they deserve and those put in a position just because they are women are treated the same as any incompetent guy would be in the same circumstances, they just make a bigger fuss about it.

KANEMAN

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:16 PM

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Originally posted by Klesst:
The average Scandinavian woman is stronger, smarter and better looking than the average American woman, it's no surprise that they would perform better in the workplace. Pirate Cat has it right, women that perform equally well in the work place earn the respect they deserve and those put in a position just because they are women are treated the same as any incompetent guy would be in the same circumstances, they just make a bigger fuss about it.

You only say that because of the pics of niki2 that she posts. Most American women are hot. Don't let niki2's ugly old ass skew the facts.