I say good for you Stephanie - if anything is worth standing up for it surely is the human race - with all its variations! Lets hear more from the REAL Stephanie!
👍 Always look forward to your insights - one day I might be able to PAY, but in the meantime I appreciate what you do when you have the opportunity.
The pay equity thing doesn't affect me directly NOW, but it did affect what mortgage I could afford as a solo woman, how much I could pay it down before I retired, and how much I could save for my retirement, so absolutely filled with rage that this betrayal has been visited upon current & future workers who had been led to believe, by the very people who have perpetrated this, that progress was being made. And yes, although MOST of the workers directly affected are women, there are also men working in those low paid jobs or relying on their combined earnings to have a decent life 🤷
You're absolutely right Stephanie. You can't have a low wage economy without anchoring some group at the bottom. Female-dominated care work gets singled out because Capitalism cannot exist without expropriating resources (in our case, Maori land) and labour (parenting) and its easy to underpay a group who are adjacent to something that many provide for no pay. Its the age old divide and conquer tactic and chances are working class men will fall for it because they judge their success relative to the bottom and not the top.
I say good for you Stephanie - if anything is worth standing up for it surely is the human race - with all its variations! Lets hear more from the REAL Stephanie!
👍 Always look forward to your insights - one day I might be able to PAY, but in the meantime I appreciate what you do when you have the opportunity.
The pay equity thing doesn't affect me directly NOW, but it did affect what mortgage I could afford as a solo woman, how much I could pay it down before I retired, and how much I could save for my retirement, so absolutely filled with rage that this betrayal has been visited upon current & future workers who had been led to believe, by the very people who have perpetrated this, that progress was being made. And yes, although MOST of the workers directly affected are women, there are also men working in those low paid jobs or relying on their combined earnings to have a decent life 🤷
Nice work. Here’s to the Marxists amongst us. 👍
You're absolutely right Stephanie. You can't have a low wage economy without anchoring some group at the bottom. Female-dominated care work gets singled out because Capitalism cannot exist without expropriating resources (in our case, Maori land) and labour (parenting) and its easy to underpay a group who are adjacent to something that many provide for no pay. Its the age old divide and conquer tactic and chances are working class men will fall for it because they judge their success relative to the bottom and not the top.
💛Thank you.