| zero129 said: Ok i feel like this is bullshit. Show me stats that show "mostly" woman have been let off work more so then men. Ya know what well your at it show me stats that show its mostly woman compared to men that have low paying jobs thats been left off work. For instance if a pub closes down that has a higher precent of women working in it then men are both left off work or just the woman?. All this women this women that. Men have it bad too you know but no one seems to give a shit. The is plenty of woman thats way better off then me, the is plenty of woman thats still in work here where i live and all over ireland but many men whos been left off. I have a little girl and ill never allow her to think of herself as a victim or that she needs help or special treatment to get up in the world. Plenty of woman have done fine this whole playing the victim thing with everything is getting old. Woman have real issues just like men, When it comes to children and courts who has more rights?, whos expected to "Keep the house" going?, who has the highest depression and suicide rates?. I think that answered everything thank you |
Okay, so let's go through this:
Taking the situation in my country as an example, here you can see the month-by-month unemployment rates for men and women respectively over the last year in the U.S. As you can see, the unemployment rate for women had been marginally lower than that of men (about 0.1 or 0.2% lower typically) before the pandemic hit. But look at when happens beginning in March and April: corresponding to the onset of covid-related restrictions and lockdowns, the jobless rate surges...but that of women rises distinctly faster, reaching a peak of 16.2% at the height of the lockdowns in April, compared to a high of 13.5% for men at the same time. You won't be surprised to learn that it was mostly service type jobs that were eliminated and that most of those were/are held by women. Also, schools were closed down and 76% of our teachers are women, child care facilities were closed and 95% of child care workers in the U.S. are women, etc. Anyway, as you can also see, the jobs market has improved since April, but even now, in the jobs report for August, women's unemployment rate is still a little higher than men's even today. The internet has come to describe the pandemic-induced crisis of this year resultantly as a "she-cession".
To your other queries/challenges:
-I don't know what the situation is over in Ireland, but here in the U.S., women were already about twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression, and what's more the mental health gap between men and women in this country increased by about 66% during the lockdown period.
-Aligning with this reality, women are more likely to attempt suicide than men overall, including here in the U.S. Women just use less reliable methods (e.g. are less likely to own firearms, for example). Don't worry though, the younger generation is leading a new trend toward equality of the sexes in successful suicides, as today's girls are succeeding more often in their attempts to kill themselves.
-Concerning child custody matters, I've seen lots of conflicting data, but I don't see any actual evidence to suggest that women have an advantage in child custody predeedings. Notably though, there is evidence that men win up to 70% of child custody cases that they bother to contest and are even more likely to win if accused of sexual abuse. Here's a guy who was convicted of raping his daughter and yet somehow won joint custody of her child!
Bottom Line: it's not easy to find areas of life where women are meaningfully advantaged over men.
Last edited by Jaicee - on 06 September 2020
