(August 27, 2016 at 3:51 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: I'm a guy and I get called 'pet names' all the time. 'Darling' , 'love'. These are more colloquialisms though where I live, everyone gets called them.
(August 27, 2016 at 12:27 am)ScienceAf Wrote: There's not even a gender pay wage gap.
In the UK at least there very much is. The factors that affect this are multiple and nuanced, but mostly it appears to be caused by women leaving full time work to raise children, and upon returning being a few years behind their male counterparts doing similar work. For me a way to stop this would be to equalise maternity and paternity leave and pay rights, give couples a year to divide out between them when they have a child and force employers through legislation to recognise the time taken by both women and men (currently it's around 2 weeks full pay for fathers and around 6 months at full pay for women, with the right to take up to a year with reduced pay + accrued holiday entitlement). Some statistics:
http://www.equalpayportal.co.uk/statistics/
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.u...423853.pdf
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistical...is/viewer/
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/m...n-lifetime
Quote:Women are likely to earn £300,000 less than men over their working lives, according to a new analysis that has sparked fresh calls for more shared parental leave to close the UK’s stubborn gender pay gap.
Before International Women’s Day on Tuesday, figures show a gap of £5,732, or 24%, in average full-time annual salaries between women and men – more than four decades after the Equal Pay Act of 1970 was introduced.
Over a career of 52 years, that gap translates into a lifetime earnings shortfall of £298,064 for female employees, according to the analysis by the recruitment company Robert Half
Wow, didn't know that it goes on in the UK.
I'll do some research on it when I can.
