The Rights Of Man

MEN WORK AS LONG AS WOMEN, RESEARCH REVEALS

Contrary to the view constantly bombarded to people from the media, women's groups, politicans and the ultra-feminists, men work as hard as women. This is the conclusion research from America's National Bureau of Economic Research which found that across northern Europe and America, the total workload combining activity both at work and home is now shared almost equally.

Whilst women spend more time working in the home, men work longer at the workplace. As well as challenging the myth that women work longer, it also shows clear evidence that the gender pay gap is not about sexual discrimiation (as constantly stated by women's groups - EOC, The Fawcett Society etc) but because men spend longer at the workplace. Ergo, they earn more money!

In the UK, the research shows that women work 428 minutes per day against men who work 418 minutes.

The BBC (link) have a debate, a vote and a detailed article. At time of this posting, 62% of people agree that men work harder and 38% say women. There are 1,500 comments on the debate.

At last, there is research to debunk one of the anti-male urban myths which states that women work longer than men.

 

THE FEMINIST CASE UNDERMINED BY WOMEN

A survey by FHM Magazine further undermined the feminist agenda of turning men into women and women into men.

The survey covered here (link), (link), (link), (link) asked 2,000 men for their views on a number of issues including their role in family life. To quote the commentary:- 

Men no longer see themselves as the main breadwinners providing for their families, a survey shows.
A staggering 71 per cent say 'they'd prefer a 50/50 role with their partner sharing work, childcare and housework' - representing a sea-change in British society.They see their lives as very different from their fathers' and don't sign up to the idea men should be the only ones with a paid job while women bring up the kids.

Only 29 per cent say they'd like a more traditional role as the earner while their partner looks after the home, according to the FHM magazine survey of 2,000 men. An overwhelming 81 per cent of men believe 'society has tried to feminise men' and just over half say they 'now live according to women's rules' (51 per cent).

Often in workplaces, a common complaint from men is that family-friendly policies only apply to women and not men. The research confirms this view - Only 36 per cent of men say they have 'flexible hours', only 21 per cent can 'work from home when necessary' and only three per cent have access to a 'company creche/childcare facilities'. Companies are far less flexible in their approach to male workers. You never hear the equal opportunites/feminist movement champioing the rights of men.

The feminist/equal opportunities industry's view is that despite being part of a family unit, all women with children must stand on their two feet by going to work and not allow men to solely provide for their family. Their case is undermined by women themselves with many rebelling against this. 

The survey shows that having been urged by society to be 'new men' for the past 30 years and share the childcare burden men who already have a baby or young children say their partner 'now wants him to be the main breadwinner'. Half of men with a baby or young children say their partner 'now wants him to earn enough so she can be a full-time mother' (49 per cent), 38 per cent 'want him to earn enough so she only has to work part-time' and only 13 per cent of men say 'their partner wants to work full-time regardless of how much he earns'.

This survey also undermines the terribly biased conclusions of the feminist industry when they talk about the gender pay gap. They conclude that because that the average  pay for men is more than the average pay for women, this is down to discrimination. However, if some women are taking time out form their careers to look after their children in a family unit  with the man being the main breadwinner, it is no surprise that their pay is less when they go back to work. They will have lost out in gaining more experience and also promotion opportunities because they are not in the workplace. This is a situation the survey shows that many women are comfortable with.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DISCRIMINATED MAN (Evening) by JAMIE WATT

Third in a series of three describing the day in the life of a discriminated man (Morning posted 27th March, Evening 3rd April)

Part Three – Evening

On his way home from work, John hears a story about a woman having her handbag snatched from her in the High Street. Everyone is talking about it, and saying that the street is not a safe place for a woman. Yet again, statistics prove this to not be entirely true. Crime rates show that the victims of crimes of this nature are mostly young men. Despite this having been the case for the last few years, all of the campaign material about safer streets is aimed at women. This is also the case for domestic violence – all the helplines are for women, even though a survey found that 18% of men had been victims of domestic abuse compared with 13% of women.

When John is home, he gets a call from a friend of his who knew a man who had just been acquitted of date-rape. 30% of all reported date-rape allegation cases turn out to be false. The same is true of sexual harassment cases, where some women pursue the allegations simply to punish the man in question.

John himself knows a woman accused of GBH. In her case, she was given a lighter sentence because she was a single parent. John does not know any men who have escaped sentencing in this way, because it does not happen.

This kind of discrimination occurs across the world. Australian Kevin Guerds, who streaked across a football pitch was arrested and held for seven hours, while a woman guilty of the same offence escaped with a fine.

When John is driving to the shops later that evening, he is cut off by a female driver. This happens to John regularly and again statistics show John is not the one in the wrong. The crash rate of women drivers is twice that of men drivers, and even though drinking alcohol increases the crash rate of men by only 5%, the majority of those imprisoned under DUI laws are men, and women are almost never imprisoned for their much higher number of non-alcohol-related crashes.

The more John thinks about this type of discrimination, the more he realizes it is all around him, and that it seems little can be done about it. On any given night, bars, clubs and restaurants are institutionally prejudiced against men, and the Equal Opportunities Commission seems reluctant to step in, choosing instead to deal with enquiries such as ‘Can a pub refuse to serve a transsexual?’ and ‘Can a pub refuse to serve a woman a drink in a pint glass?’. These are seen as offences, but any question about male and female issues has wording to the effect that promotions such as ‘Ladies Night’ and ‘Free entry to anyone wearing a skirt’ are deemed legal.

By Jamie Watt

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DISCRIMINATED MAN (Afternoon) by JAMIE WATT

Second in a series of three describing a day in the life of a discrimiated man. (Morning is here)

Part Two – Afternoon

Once again being unable to pick his children up from school, John has to make other arrangements. The school timetable is not helpful to fathers in John’s position who find themselves increasingly left out of their child’s education. This, along with the low numbers of male primary school teachers means that fewer children have male mentors or role models. Statistics show that mother-headed homes often produce child criminals, and children who grow up not living with their father do less well in their studies. Leave from work for men who have just become fathers is also substantially less than for women.

When thinking about his situation, John realises that women who complain about inequality have very little to base what they say on. Men are often portrayed as dim in the media, in some news stories and particularly in advertisements, yet in today’s culture several women have gained celebrity status for being dumb. Men are always blighted by negative press coverage, for example a stalker featured in the news is rarely female.

Aside from the Equal Opportunities Commission, John has few places to turn with his concerns. There are several support groups widely available to women, such as women’s refuge centres, women’s hostels, single mothers, lesbian lines, and women’s branches of social services, yet the only male support groups widely available are only aimed at gay men. Also, there are radio stations that have programmes like women’s hour but there is no men’s hour.

Wherever John turns there seems to be some form of discrimination, and there is no real opportunity to change this. Women have the lifestyle options of work, housewife, full-time parent or part-time parent with part-time work. Traditionally, men are only given the option of work.

John has now found that women have began to assume male roles in both his home and workplace, while it remains unacceptable for him to do the same; he cannot get a drastically different job, he cannot collect his children from school, he cannot even wear an earring to work should he choose to.

All factors in this seem to be against John, from the fact that women’s insurance is cheaper and the 21st century working environment now favours women by being geared more towards relationships with power than positions of power.

By Jamie Watt

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DISCRIMINATED MAN (Morning) by JAMIE WATT

First in a series of three describing a day in the life of a discriminated man

Part One – Morning

John returns to work after a few days off with the flu. His female colleagues are not impressed by this, and say he has only had “man-flu”, meaning that they believe he only had a minor cold and not the flu at all. This is just one of the discriminations faced by John and other men every day, despite statistics showing that men have a life expectancy seven years shorter than women, and that women account for twice as many visits to Doctors. As well as this, women have the benefits of screening processes and health targets for breast cancer and cervical cancer, while there is nothing like this for common male diseases.

Were John to decide to change jobs, he would again face discrimination as a man. Already this morning, John has had to move heavy equipment in and around the office even though there is nothing like this in his job description. The women would make fun of John if he refused to do this, but they do not realise that the vast majority of A&E cases and industrial accidents involve men.

On average, men work four hours a week more than women, and therefore pay more tax, but do not see any advantages from this. John may think about leaving his job, but his choices would be limited; very few men are successful in getting secretarial or PA jobs, and one man was refused a job as an air steward for being “too masculine”. If a woman applied for a job as a truck driver, she would be hailed a heroine, but men are often limited by their appearance, what they wear and the type of job they are after.

John would not be alone in looking for work – even though more men than women work, male unemployment is three times higher than female. There are several training courses aimed at recruiting women to certain professions, with funding available, but again, nothing of this kind for a man in John’s position.

During his break, John has to wait as he is expected to “be a gentleman”, but when playing that card, a “real lady” would wait to be offered. This is not the only time John will face this kind of unfair treatment today – although there are no statistics to prove it, it is a known fact that men have to wait longer than women for service in bars and restaurants. A prime example of this is a club in Covent Garden who were found to be letting women in for free while charging men £15 for entry. There is also a clear imbalance in the number of men able to get a taxi when compared with women. On top of this, there are also ‘women only’ libraries and swimming pool sessions, with women also wanting entry into men-only clubs. John cannot complain to the equal opportunities commission about any of this, as they have been shown to be unhelpful in these situations in the past, while all helplines and support group are aimed specifically at women.

By Jamie Watt

EOC REPORT - A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE

I recently commented (5th Jan 07) on the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Who Runs Britain Report which stated that a glass ceiling and sexual discrimination still existed in British public life because 33,000 women were ‘allegedly’ missing from top jobs in business, politics and the judiciary.

The evidence produced would have shamed a GSCE statistics student because the EOC do not prove any connection between these ‘missing women’ and any form of sexual discrimination.

Fortunately, at least of Britain’s last freedoms remain outside of the PC thought police – the free press.

Rachel Johnson in an excellent  article called ‘You Keep The Top Jobs, Guys’ for the Sunday Times (Link) on 7th January 2007 said that despite these facts and other issues such as smaller pensions and missing promotions ‘sucked’, it was ‘depressingly retro’ that the EOC report ignored the fact that some of this was down to women themselves.

She said “the whole report and the reaction to it, bizarrely depicted the workplace as a sort of hostile environment where all women were rammed against the glass ceiling….” She went on to state that if women want to be on top, they would be and described successful women who had made it such as Angela Merkel and Hilary Clinton.

The point she eloquently made that if women did not want to be top dog at work and at home, then it is more likely because they don’t want to be.

Rod Liddle in the same edition (Link) made a similar point with clarion cry “Watch out Ladies – the EOC is after you” describing the report as fatuous and of course, paid for by the British taxpayer.

Whilst Rod’s article was as spot on as Rachel’s, it is the latter that has more significance because it was written by a woman.

If only more women would come out against the EOC’s biased and unproven reports then maybe they would tone down their rhetoric.

SURVEY SHOWS 6 OUT OF 10 MEN SUFFER WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION

A sadly overlooked piece of research emerged in June 2006 from online job portal, TipTopJob.com which revealed that it’s no longer just women that suffer from sexual discrimination at work (text of release from TipTopJob.com is below).

Some of the verbatim experiences included the experiences of men who could not find PA/secretarial work or lacked the supposed feminity of some roles such as air steward positions. Others included the age-old chestnut of men having to wear suits/shirts/ties whilst women do not have the same restrictions (successfully challenged a few years ago by a male employee of the Employment Service who had to wear a shirt and tie whilst women could wear T-shirts) and the lifting of heavy goods.

With these cases of gender-stereotyping and the proliferation of women-only courses in the workplace, especially in the pubic-sector, it is no wonder the figure is as high as 60%.

With male unemployment higher than female unemployment, the lack of courses especially aimed at men continues to be shameful. Added to the continuing decline of the manufacturing industry, many men wanting to re-train or find alternative careers are hampered by the brick wall of gender-stereotyping.

The employment issue comes down to the victorious ideology of political correctness which does not treat people as individuals’ first, gender/race second or irrelevant. The ideology fervently championed by the public sector and the UK elite places people into victims groups (except white men who are not seen as victims but either as irrelevant or as oppressors) and believes that everyone in those victim groups is the same with the same needs and wants.

The clearest example is the proliferation of women-only management courses. The courses assume wrongly that all women need management training and that all men do not need it and therefore men are denied access to this extra training offered to women. This, of course, is sexist, but it is rarely challenged and therefore has become the norm.

PRESS RELEASE FROM TIPTOPJOB.COM

13th June 2006
For immediate release

6 out of 10 men suffer from sexual discrimination in the workplace

Men are the new victims of sexual discrimination at work, according to a recent survey, which has found that 6/10 men feel that they have been discriminated against because of their sex.

The survey, which has been carried out by online job portal, TipTopJob.com, has discovered that it’s no longer just women that suffer from sexual discrimination.

Sexual discrimination occurs when a person is treated differently because of their sex and whilst we often hear about female victims, how are men being targeted?

The survey asked men to talk about their experiences of sexual discrimination:

• Some men admitted that they have struggled to find secretarial / PA work because they did not have the looks and charms of women
• Others reported that they lacked the femininity needed for certain positions. For example, one gentleman was told that he could not be an air steward because he was too masculine
• Several male employers felt that they were discriminated against because they were expected to wear uncomfortable suits, whilst their female counterparts are able to vary their work wear
• Some male employees felt that their sex meant that they were constantly carrying out tasks that weren’t in the job description, such as lifting heavy goods, moving office furniture and fixing broken equipment
• And one man felt sexually discriminated due to the lack of and quality of the men’s toilet facilities in comparison to the female toilets

Corinne Dauncey from online job portal, TipTopJob.com, said: “When sexual discrimination is talked about, everybody assumes that it is women who are the sufferers but the results show that men face inequalities too. 

“Despite there being a greater awareness to discrimination and inequality in the workplace, it appears that it is still an underlying problem for both genders – it is important that employers confront these issues and attempt to solve them.”

For more information on TipTopJob.com, please visit www.tiptopjob.com.

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TipTopJob.com is an international job portal offering access to jobs and careers advice. As one of the most exciting recruitment web sites, TipTopJob.com has an abundance of jobs internationally and in the UK, covering over 34 industries.

Information on the survey

Survey 36 - "Have you been discriminated at work"

TipTopJob’s latest survey looked at the discrimination against men at work.
They found that 60.6% of men had been discriminated against because they were male and 39.4% had not experienced any kind of sexual discrimination.

EOC REPORT: WHO RUNS BRITAIN? PROMOTES SEX DISCRIMINATION

The day after the EOC failed to push any comments on the Ofsted report (Link) (Link) that boys need separate school classes to close the results gap with girls, it cannot get enough of its report on the alleged glass ceiling in UK plc.

It's report (Link) Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? complains that because females are under-represented in certain walks of life such as the judiciary, parliament and FTSE-100 directorships then there must be a glass ceiling of sexual discrimination. They allege that 6,000 women are missing from positions they should have.

The EOC are only think about society in black and white terms. They ignore that some women will choose to want a career break (normally to look after their children) and therefore will lose some time/experience at the workplace which means a man (or a woman with no children) will likely to advance in a company quicker. In addition, why do the EOC automatically think that as many women as men want to be politicians, judges, FTSE-100 directors. They may do, of course, but the EOC are not interested in finding out if it is true, they just make sweeping generalisations.

The good thing is that the EOC receive more of a challenge to their sweeping generalisations nowadays with their explicit notion that UK society is anti-women and men are to blame. BBC Breakfast this morning ran a debate asking viewers to state whether they thought there was a glass ceiling or whether it was down to a woman's lifestyle choice. This is the first time that the latter counter argument has been put out by the BBC, normally the BBC give as much airtime to the EOC to rant their anti-men, pro-women propaganda. It was spoilt by their web-site which ignores the lifestyle issue when asking for comments.(Link)

The reason I raise the subject here is not to deny that more women should be in these positions of power. I have no real view one way or other, as I cannot pre-judge what motivates individuals who happen to be women. My concern is that the EOC want more and more positive action and they raise this in the debate. Positive action means negative action for someone else, that is, as ever, men.

The outcome of the EOC campaign would be that less qualified/experienced women will be able to leapfrog more qualified/experienced men into positions of power to meet a gender quota. This is anti-male, anti-freedom, anti-meritocratic, anti-equality and of course, sexual discrimination. 

THE EDITOR 

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