Women Bear the Brunt of Public Sector Job Cuts

[Capt Bringdown]

With females in the majority at jobs such as teaching and health care, cutbacks and limits on collective bargaining will fall disproportionately on them (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224026297176.htm)

[coyotes_geek]

Unfortunate for them, but what's the point here?

[George Gervin's Afro]

Unfortunate for them, but what's the point here?

votes?

[Capt Bringdown]

Unfortunate for them, but what's the point here?

I think you just made it with your question. Injustice, shrug, what's the point? I got mine, fuck everyone else - especially "those" people.

[coyotes_geek]

I think you just made it with your question. Injustice, shrug, what's the point? I got mine, fuck everyone else - especially "those" people.

Nice strawman you've erected here.

Who'd have thunk that in professions where women outnumber men, cutbacks would affect women more than men? What an "injustice".

[Capt Bringdown]

LOL, "it's just women's work."

[Winehole23]

You're a shitty ventriloquist, Cap'n Dingdong. CG said no such thing.

Look, it's a simple factual matter: Do women outnumber men in health care and teaching or not?

If so, cuts in these areas will fall on more women than men by dint of their greater participation.

Sad, yes. Because teachers and health care professionals do honorable work, not because women preponder in these fields.

[Capt Bringdown]

LOL, "It's just the way things are."

[Winehole23]

http://johngushue.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451f25369e20120a825bf29970b-800wi

[TeyshaBlue]

LOL, "I have no idea what I'm arguing about."

fify.

[Capt Bringdown]

I am a sycophant.

Sorry you got fired gals, that's just the way things are, it couldn't be helped. Nobody's pickin' on you or anything, really. We feel your pain.

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The amount of money that taxpayers are losing from the tax dodging by these major corporations is enormous. For example, if five of the nation’s biggest banks paid their taxes at the full rate, we could re-hire every single one of the 132,000 teachers laid off during the recession — twice.

[MannyIsGod]

Unfortunate for them, but what's the point here?


You're a shitty ventriloquist, Cap'n Dingdong. CG said no such thing.

Look, it's a simple factual matter: Do women outnumber men in health care and teaching or not?

If so, cuts in these areas will fall on more women than men by dint of their greater participation.

Sad, yes. Because teachers and health care professionals do honorable work, not because women preponder in these fields.

At the very least I find it VERY interesting on a social level that decisions made by a mostly male government impact professions with more women members negatively. Furthermore, its equally as interesting that a profession dominated by men (the military) is one of the hardest to get cuts from.

The question is do you believe in coincidences like this on a societal level?

[coyotes_geek]

I still don't have a point here, so I'm going to move the goal posts and start talking about mean banks.

[Winehole23]

Apart from reflexive adherance to military keynesianism, resistance to military cuts has very little to with DoD and the military being male dominated and everything to do with our representatives emulating their pisspants constituents. JMO.

[Capt Bringdown]

My thinking is very rigid and I have to have things explained to me like a child. Please don't confuse me with facts.

[MannyIsGod]

@WH I don't know about that. With no data and just from what you know, do you think a congress with a male to female ratio more in line wit our population's male to female ratio would have a higher chance of enacting military cuts?

[coyotes_geek]

Anytime you want to want to actually explain something or attempt to make a point here, go right ahead. Thus far all you've produced in this thread is a random link, a couple of failed ventriloquist acts and a goal post move.

[Winehole23]

@WH I don't know about that. With no data and just from what you know, do you think a congress with a male to female ratio more in line wit our population's male to female ratio would have a higher chance of enacting military cuts?A fair question. I don't feel certain of the answer. Do you?

[MannyIsGod]

Certain? No. But I know what my initial hypothesis is. I think its worthwhile exploring ideas such as this, however.

[Winehole23]

Certain? No. But I know what my initial hypothesis is. I think its worthwhile exploring ideas such as this, however.What is your initial hypothesis and on what do you base it?

[TeyshaBlue]

My gut feeling, albeit buttressed by the conventional wisdom of women being more pacifist by nature, is that a congress domintated by women would be more likely to cut MI spending. But, I have not a single data point to base this on and my confidence level reflects that.

[MannyIsGod]

Pretty much what TB posted.

[MannyIsGod]

Although not necessarily because women are pacifist. I think that women place more importance on social programs in general.

[Wild Cobra]

Why does someone always have to play the race or gender card?

[ElNono]

Why does someone always have to play the race or gender card?

Same question the black surgeon asked, tbh

[MannyIsGod]

Why does someone always have to play the race or gender card?

Because we're divided into races and genders and its been scientifically proven they affect our judgments.

Sup black surgeons!