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01.06.2011, 00:50
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | Try it once..and you will be begging to go back to work for a rest... | | | | | For networking, social contact, recognition, independence, for future career moves...
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01.06.2011, 00:51
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | dont be bloody stupid, I'd rather take out a loan for a nanny. | | | | | My kids are great, being with them and looking after them during the working day is a luxury money cannot buy...
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01.06.2011, 00:55
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | My kids are great, being with them and looking after them during the working day is a luxury money cannot buy... | | | | | Would you consider a part exchange ?
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01.06.2011, 00:59
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | Would you consider a part exchange ? | | | | | I looked after my kids for 6 months during a career hiatus. Got them up, fed them, took them to school, met them after school, shared their homework and wiped their proverbial backsides for 6 months. The happiest time of my life.
Yes, I do work in IT, yes I do work for a bank. Not really a plausible argument really. I am the modern world cottage slave.
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01.06.2011, 01:02
| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | Would you consider a part exchange ? | | | | | | Quote: | |  | | | I looked after my kids for 6 months during a career hiatus. Got them up, fed them, took them to school, met them after school, shared their homework and wiped their proverbial nappies for 6 months. The happiest time of my life.
Yes, I do work in IT, yes I do work for a bank. Not really a plausible argument really. I am the modern world cottage slave. | | | | | For his kids mate, a part exchange for his kids.
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01.06.2011, 02:01
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | It is true, it also says that woman have more insecure jobs and yes, in case of seperations or divorces, they are more often the one in financial trouble. | | | | | No, it doesnt say this at all.
1)worse paying is not more insecure. How do you jump to that conclusion? It only means that Swiss females are on average less high educated or work in jobs that pay on average less. The educated part specifically means "education an employer is willing to pay for". And from my experience this is entirely true and I cannot blame the employers alone on it: Swiss society - and this includes the 50% females - is still set up in the way that you are supposed to have a small family and a small house with a small garden. As a man, you go to school and learn something that first and most importantly should be able to support a family and then it should maybe interest you as well. If you are female you go to university and have some fun till you manage to catch your banker/doctor/...
No, not all Swiss are like this, but enough to make this statistic sound completely reasonable to me. How many percent of all engineering students are female here?
2) How on earth can you conclude that divorced females are worse off? Especially if there are kids, the Swiss system is fairly discriminatory for the same old-fashioned reasons described above: The woman will on default get the kids, I guess one would need to be able to proof schizophrenia or something on a similar level in order to convince a judge to give the kids to a guy. The dad on the other hand is invited to pay for many years, because even then he remains the one expected to support the not-anymore-existing family.
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01.06.2011, 08:58
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
I think you need a reality check from single mothers of this forum Treverus... Hopefully they will step in and tell you what it is like | Quote: | |  | | | No, it doesnt say this at all.
1)worse paying is not more insecure. How do you jump to that conclusion? It only means that Swiss females are on average less high educated or work in jobs that pay on average less. The educated part specifically means "education an employer is willing to pay for". And from my experience this is entirely true and I cannot blame the employers alone on it: Swiss society - and this includes the 50% females - is still set up in the way that you are supposed to have a small family and a small house with a small garden. As a man, you go to school and learn something that first and most importantly should be able to support a family and then it should maybe interest you as well. If you are female you go to university and have some fun till you manage to catch your banker/doctor/...
No, not all Swiss are like this, but enough to make this statistic sound completely reasonable to me. How many percent of all engineering students are female here?
2) How on earth can you conclude that divorced females are worse off? Especially if there are kids, the Swiss system is fairly discriminatory for the same old-fashioned reasons described above: The woman will on default get the kids, I guess one would need to be able to proof schizophrenia or something on a similar level in order to convince a judge to give the kids to a guy. The dad on the other hand is invited to pay for many years, because even then he remains the one expected to support the not-anymore-existing family. | | | | | | 
01.06.2011, 09:00
| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | I think you need a reality check from single mothers of this forum Treverus... Hopefully they will step in and tell you what it is like  | | | | | And we'll listen! But we'll listen equally to single fathers so they can tell us what it's like too. I hope you didn't forget to mention the single fathers Nil, I really do. That would have been the first sexist post of this thread.
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01.06.2011, 09:05
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
I'm too lazy to back this up with some official figures but from my memory of various publications:
-women study social sciences, guys study engineering, economy (almost equal now) and hard sciences
-women's jobs are safer and they are less likely to be unemployed
-women are overrepresented in the public sector
-men are more likely to live in poverty
-men drop out of school more often
-women bargain less for their salary
-men work more
conclusion: men and women earn different salaries.
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01.06.2011, 09:09
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | You have lies, damn lies and statistics Nil
If you look past the punchy headline:
'Rechsteiner said that wage discrimination was a serious problem in Switzerland, and that women generally earned about 10 percent less than men for equal work.'
I'm not sure what difference there is in other countries but I'd imagine it would be around equal. I'm not saying 10% is okay...I'm just saying it's not as bad as 40%
The 41% figures seems to be collating ALL the mens salaries and taking a mean and comparing all the women's salaries and taking a mean. It doesn't say if the women are working part time or what? It's a very vague article and doesn't really tell us much to be honest. | | | | | 10% sounds realistic. Let's realize that pregnancy does not stop men from working but can kill the career of a woman.
BUT if you realize that there are women like secretaries of directors who even if not having too heavy qualifications earn far more than highly qualified commercial employees in the same companies, this unfortunately means that the differences are far higher "farther down"  and that often without any real basis. It was decades ago, when we learnt that our boss on the phone with a good friend openly declared "women here are just helping-hands". Miss C. , who had heard this by chance, gave notice within a months and went elsewhere. I then hoped that such ideas were to become a thing of the past before long, but I fear that I was not realistic and that such notions as the ones of Mr W.... still are around | 
01.06.2011, 09:10
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
Whats the problem with women earning less than men. The combined income of the couple makes the average anyway, and if the single woman earns less, well it won`t be forever cos she will meet a bloke and there you are. An if she can`t ever find a bloke she must be a bit of a boiler anyway.
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01.06.2011, 09:14
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | And we'll listen! But we'll listen equally to single fathers so they can tell us what it's like too. I hope you didn't forget to mention the single fathers Nil, I really do. That would have been the first sexist post of this thread. | | | | | Honey, I am not sexist at all, the thread was about swiss women, I am just staying on topic. I know too well how disgusting the court can be toward fathers in divorce. My dad was a victim of it and the kids as well.
I am not going into details but I can assure you that I am the first one in here who'll stand to fight for fathers rights.
But this topic is about the swiss women.
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01.06.2011, 09:15
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
Well, that's obvious isn't it?. They work 41% less. | The following 2 users would like to thank PaddyG for this useful post: | | 
01.06.2011, 09:37
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
next thing you know, they'll let them vote....awww damn, I'm forty years late
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01.06.2011, 09:59
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | next thing you know, they'll let them vote....awww damn, I'm forty years late | | | | | surely you mean 20? All women in Switzerland finally had a vote only in 1990.
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01.06.2011, 10:16
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men
There are certain Swiss employers who are still old school. I earn as much as my colleague (male) doing the same job. But a man was promoted some years ago even though I was much better qualified for the job. I got promoted in the end, but of course now I'm lacking the years of experience in that particular position. In the States I would and could have sued them for billions, but in Switzerland you have no chance to do that.
I still remember that one job interview many years ago when my kids were still young and the prospective employer ( who obviously just then read my cv) asked me what I was thinking about, taking a job like that with two young kids at home. That's the whole point. You don't get hired or promoted in the first place.
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01.06.2011, 10:23
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | Honey, I am not sexist at all, the thread was about swiss women, I am just staying on topic. | | | | | | Quote: | |  | | | There are certain Swiss employers who are still old school. I earn as much as my colleague (male) doing the same job. But a man was promoted some years ago even though I was much better qualified for the job. I got promoted in the end, but of course now I'm lacking the years of experience in that particular position. | | | | | I don't get the experience bit. I suppose it's not necessarily a Swiss thing, but I've noticed it here more than elsewhere. My last employer had two guys working who made more than I did, both did half the work and were less competent put together than I or several other of my lower paid collegues. But they got more pay since they had more experience, or were significantly older. One was eventually asked to leave, the other retired, and I (and several others) left all on our own  .
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01.06.2011, 10:33
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | surely you mean 20? All women in Switzerland finally had a vote only in 1990. | | | | | Only on the local level, on the federal level it was 40 years ago.
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01.06.2011, 10:55
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | Hey, I found this news from this forum, It is The Local!
If they say it, it most be true!  | | | | | Actually it is true, depending on which angle you take  This is a very nice example of how to tell lies using statistics | The following 2 users would like to thank taskalem for this useful post: | | 
01.06.2011, 11:04
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| | Re: Swiss women earn 41 percent less than men | Quote: | |  | | | surely you mean 20? All women in Switzerland finally had a vote only in 1990. | | | | | Female voting rights were introduced in the Canton of Zurich in 1969. Female voting rights were approved on the Federal level in 1970 and introduced within a year.
So that it IS 40 years ago !
The exception, Appenzell Innerrhoden, only has 15'000 inhabitants, and so is not too relevant. Your wording "all women" therefore is rubbish.
************************************************** ****************************************** | Quote: | |  | | | Only on the local level, on the federal level it was 40 years ago.
Tom | | | | | AND, on the local level (municipal & cantonal) it generally was rather BEFORE the Federal level !
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