The definition what equality is, is so rubbery that it is impossible to measure.

If one only looks at statistical data that shows men earn more than women, it is possible to come to the conclusion that men are paid more than women, but if one breaks down the data, men spend more hours working than women, like for example, men work 50 hours per week, and women 40 hours a week in paid employment.

It is also my understanding some women prefer more flexible working so this influence their working decisions. It is likely this may change in the future.

Another example is with doctors, because female doctors work fewer hours, we need to have more doctors to make up the short fall.

Nina relies on the tactic of fear mongering in her article, whilst history can be interesting, if certian events are ignore in order to support a hypothesis, then history become little more than a propaganda tool.

If we want to look at women, getting the vote, we also need to look at how history treated men as well. This is a holistic approach.

To appraoch this subject in any other way than holistically, is only going to raise another generation of angry women.

A very popular book the Secret, said that if you only look at the negative, then that is all you will see and get. Because any thing that is positive in your life is ignored, because it does not match what your belief system is.

Many early feminist promoted the idea that marriage was a patriarchial construct, to keep women oppressed. Rather than looking at marriage as something positive for both men and women.
http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia.2202.htm

A good article. The gender equality debate is too easily hijacked by extremists: man-hating lesbians on one side, and on the other, weak men who use feminism as scapegoat for their own failures [hi, Antiseptic!].

Women are not yet equal and feminism is not redundant. The androgynous ideal, however, is false. For example, women are allowed to place a higher emphasis on personal beauty than men do - it's not necessarily oppression. That's different from a society in which looks and sex are the only currency available to women.

There's a way to go yet before the sexes are equal, but cries of "oppression!" are hyperbolic and easily recognised as such.

And snake, why do you think women make better nurses than men?

Funny joke this one. A white male, a black male, and a white woman are interviewed for a job position. The black male is told that he isn't the right fit for the job and he subsquently claims racism for which he receives a compensation payout. The white woman also is told that she isn't the right fit for the job and she subsequently claims gender discrimination for which she receives a compensation payout. The white male also is told that he isn't the right fit for the job so he... ummm.... yeah, well anyway moving on, the job goes to the black female friend of one of the departmental managers who was always going to get the job, they just interviewed the other people so the process would look fair.

Hi Sancho,

I don't necessarily think that women make better nurses than men, but simply due to the number of women that outnumber men in that profession, the probability exists that women may have a better aptitude and their caring nature more suitable for that sort of work.

An excellent article by Nina that is overdue.
We are producing a generation of women who may well overturn whatever progress was made by the last lot of feminists. Young women live in a "Brat" culture where the pressure to accessorise and be vacuous is irresistible. I pine for the whiff and texture of a hairy pussy that bespoke a woman with the confidence of a bloke! We're breeding a generation of gaudily painted porcelain dolls. Sorry for being vulgar, but lets up the anti! Do we really want another era of patriarchy that this time the women are complicit in?

Squeers

Never fear, that photo of the starkers and very hirsute Germaine Greer is still on the net somewhere. However that is already too much information :(

No wonder so many young women run screaming from the feminists.