Feminism: a man's perspective

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There is a murmur in the atmosphere that famous males are jumping on the Feminist bandwagon and that the discussion is a quasi positive effort on their part to give momentum to the cause.

This article states a great argument on the term feminist for men, and the ongoing discussion afterwards clarifies the point.

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Modern Feminism is about how the equal treatment of women is in ways dependent on the ways that men view themselves within it.
For it is only when it stops becoming about us and them and more about we that we can see how we are all in this together, each with given strengths and abilities not based on sex but who are individually within that.

Some women make great CEO's, scientists, and politicians, global leaders and others make great make mum's, chefs and crafters, each are just as valuable.
Just as it is for men, some men make better mum's, chefs, home keepers, and we as a society allow these flexes within gender roles to occur naturally then society and people will be able to really get on with making how we live on this planet better for all.

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From home duties to paid work: The evolution of the working life from a woman's perspective

In our recent century women were often seen as 'the angel in the house'. Women had to stay home and care for house and family while the breadwinner went to work and cared for the financial outcome of the familiy. The relative recent shift of women entering the workforce doesn't mean women also face equal opportunity in the workforce as well.

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One of the big problems is that women often earn less in some areas within the workforce, in government or state institutions there is more pay equality for example. There are feminised jobs which have a lesser pay for e.g. hairdresser or beauty therapists. Women also face less money for the same work in non-feminised jobs.

The workforce is therefore still a male dominated institution and does not help to empower women do be financially independent.

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"The gender pay gap is hopelessly static right now. For the last decade, median earnings for women working full time, year-round have been just 77% of men’s earnings."(Forbes, 2014)

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This article, "Negotiating While Female: sometimes it does hurt to ask ", reflects on the fact that the road to obtain equality in the work place doesn't always work out

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