Are women more sexist than men?

Question

Does anybody think this is true? Who does a harder days physical work (in the likes of a DIY store and the physical requirements that are needed within) and should we be paid equally when women can retire at an earlier age? Do men get an equal chance when going for jobs that are female oriented? Just wondering...

Answer 1

That is a shallow insight on physical jobs male/female do... You're so short sighted in thinking that only DIY and carrying heavy boxes, driving forklifts... are physical.

What about housework, cooking, cleaning, tutoring kids at home, baby nursing, dealing with cranky 2nd half after coming home from a day at work (office) - that not physical hardship?

Answer 2

I don't think that women are more sexist than men, ironically i believe that mean are more sexist towards men than they are towards women in this day and age. The government is made up mainly of men but they are making it easier for women to get equal ops in the work place, like you said; they can retire at an early age, employers are allowed to ask for women only but not for men only. the list goes on.

there will come a time when things do balance themselves out but there will always be discrimination towards one particular sex which i reckon will be the female species.

Answer 3

Some are, some aren't. I know plenty of women who do hard physical jobs and plenty of men who do things traditionally thought to be "women's work". The divisions are diminishing.

On the other hand, I've never heard a woman say 'men are like pianos, grand when they're not upright', so maybe men still excel at this.

I have to go now. My wife is coooking my breakfast.

Answer 4

I don't think that women are more sexist than men; I do think however society is sexist towards both men and women in different situations. The issue is however a lot of feminism is anti-men, even if they claim otherwise, simply feminism was always geared by a need to support women, although that support is still needed in a lot of ways in some areas it has done nothing but harm for men – and in turn all of us. I see a lot of sexism towards men, however because men don't have the baking to break such social attitudes these things go unnoticed by most, in fact you will find a lot of women and feminists are highly offended by the idea of many men's issues and the implication that feminism has done harm so to many men's issues are still viewed as irrelevant or detrimental to equality. There is anti-feminism now, equality of the sexes by attempting to put right a lot of the things feminism has done against men, and I think men's issues are becoming better known, but men are just as much victims of sexism as women, simply in different ways.

On work - men and women get different pay because men are more likely to work the more physical and risky jobs in order to provide for their family, although there are exceptions and freedom for diversity within families fact remains socially men are still the providers and so if they cannot provide and are unwilling to do all it takes they are not considered real men – that means risking ones well-being for the sake of a job to care for the family, high risk jobs equate to higher pay. Women are still very much protected socially, where there is not a father or partner to protect a woman society protects a woman in terms of rights, there is a push for women in traditionally male roles but nothing vice versa and no real social push for women to work men's jobs, so roles remain the same only difference is women can have more of a choice.

I'm tired and starting to babble, you get my point on this one anyway I hope.

[Side note, I am a woman, I am an anti-feminist because I believe in equality of the sexes, not just equality for women – yes, a lot of feminists despise me for this]

Answer 5

In some ways yes. I worked at a factory with men and women. There were women there complaining about having to do a "man's" job. I thought to myself, "Isn't this what women fought so hard for many years ago?" I thought it was pretty ludicrous

You have to remember, there are female firefighters, cops, doctors, nurses just as their are males in the field. I've also seen many male hairdressers.

Answer 6

Oppressed masses tend to be tetchy. Anyway, what's all this about physical labour...have you GIVEN birth? Have you spent the early years of a child's life at home, bringing them up? Equality in the workplace does not exist, sexual equality is a cosy myth, and outside the Western comfort zone women of many cultures suffer because they aren't men. As long as women are bought and sold (and maltreated) in vast numbers as a commodity by men (prostitution, pornography, lapdancing etc ad nauseam) - as long as they can be thought of and treated as property, as long as domestic violence, rape and harrassment levels climb, as long as women cannot feel safe (or at least safe from being flashed, groped, spoken to in a degrading manner, etc) on public transport at night - there will be reasonable cause to feel that men are often the enemy.

Answer 7

Clearly someone who hasn't spent a full day trying to cook a meal and keep a house tidy whilst entertaining a few small children.

Answer 8

Sometimes, it depends on which society the woman has been raised up

Answer 9

I think women are more sexy than men!

Answer 10

without a doubt NO women are not more sexist then men:P