My belief is that gender feminists will never stop their accusing of men and society in general for gender discrimination, no matter how much progress women make, or how many gender quota laws were enacted, how many daycare centers were established, how many so called “deadbeat dads” were thrown into prison and how fewer number of men go to college. The victimology and demonization of men are so deeply entwined in basic tenets of gender feminism, indeed it is theoretically impossible to conceive of modern gender feminism in other way. One example to prove this point is an article published in an international edition of newsweek titled “The Gender Gap: Moms Not Wanted”.
The female author of this article claims that Sweden’s welfare system, which, to feminist’s dream, provides 480 day parental leave with 80% pay, is actually hurting women, because private sector is, oh what a surprise, "less willing to deal with the disruption caused by very long maternity leaves," and thus is less likely to hire women. I emphasize with Swedish companies. I emphasize with them even more when you think that there are looming threat to these companies of a new gender quota in the boardroom, just like the one that has hitted its neighbor, Norway. Long maternity leave is a course of a new "glass ceiling" and a “subtle discrimination”, as one gender feminists put it in the article.
What do these feminists want? Didn’t they want ridiculously long, macro-and micro-economically-challenged maternity leave for every women with all the perks and privileges? Now that they've got that in this northern feminist utopia, they are blaming it a discrimination? This would lead one to wonder as to the solution to this dilemma in the feminist-utopia - get rid of this long maternity leave or force companies to ban considering the possibility of long maternity leave in hiring of new personnel? Of course the correct answer, as gender feminist would tell us, will be the latter, but how? Another gender-quota law or re-education camp?
This is a good example that feminists will never stop their accusation of discrimination, and perpetual blaming of men and society. It is ironic that their supposedly women-friendly programme actually turned out to hurt some of the women (and needless to say rest of the society), it predictably led to cry for further corrective social engineering scheme, with more vengeance.
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I guess one of their social engineering ideas could be that these maternity leaves are paid by both of the parents' employer so that the employer couldn't know whether or not they will be forced to pay by looking at the gender of the employee. Of course this would hurt the society at large, but hey, since when was it in the feminists agenda to call for the bettering of the society at large? Actually this was exactly what some politician here in Finland have proposed.
You mean that cost for 80% of up to 480 days' pay for women, to be shared by the husband's company? I don't know if that will work, but for feminists, whether it does work or not (or make sense or logical or justifiable or etc...) doesn't matter... interesting point...gender neutral, gender neutral...
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