C´mon... we have to do something. In other parts of the World (and not necessarily in the North), women get up to 4 even one year of paid maternity leave. Denying such a right (yes, for me it is a right) to women is a sort of discrimination, forcing them to choose between their work or their families.
My proposal: women get on a "sex strike" for one week (at least)! (see it that way... women may be the ones paying the consequences -9 months later- of having sex... we should stand for a change, then)
2007-03-27 15:42:11 · 11 answers · asked by mmsc 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Accordin to ILO, 120 nations in the world have paid maternity leave, many of them in the industrialized world except for USA, New Zealand and Australia.
"The ILO created the first global standard in 1919 aimed at protecting working women before and after childbirth: the Maternity Protection Convention. The standard was revised in 1952 and now calls for a minimum 12-week leave although a 14-week leave is recommended. In countries which provide cash benefits through social security, the ILO standard says that a woman should be paid at a rate of not less than two-thirds of her previous insured earnings, with full health benefits."
2007-03-27 16:02:01 · update #1
that's what we get for letting you out of the kitchen???
2007-03-27 21:15:55 · answer #1 · answered by ati-atihan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can see why you feel that way, but the countries that do have those policies are very left leaning social societies.
I think women should take off time for maternity leave, but I do not want to pay for it. The countries where that have these policies have the highest taxes in the world.
This is America and you have the freedom to choose to work for a company that extends those benefits, or since you know that you are going to have a child, you could save your money for maternity leave.
2007-03-27 22:55:43 · answer #2 · answered by Dina W 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't know what a "right" is.
You do not have a "right" to require anyone to hire you in the first place, how could you possibly have a right to demand a specific term of the contract as a "right"?
But go ahead and go on a sex strike. As the old joke goes, you can't cut the man off from sex if you don't know where he's getting it in the first place.
2007-03-27 22:49:21 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How exactly is a sex strike going to do anything? It's far more effective to get out on the street and protest, or sign a petition and call your congressmen and senators.
But c'mon... a sex strike? Even if Laura Bush goes on a sex strike, I don't think it would make much of a difference to Georgie.
2007-03-27 22:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by pedros2008 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just go on a sex strike. And stay on it. Forever. Hopefully that will eliminate the possibility of you breeding and producing dumb feminist offspring and infecting the rest of the world with your idealistic feminist grabage.
2007-03-28 00:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by Voice of Liberty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen! Sex strike!
We are not getting what we deserve as mothers and career women! It disgusts me that the U.S. is so behind on this. Hell, our government is ignoring the issues altogether. If they're not going to help women, maybe it's time for something drastic. They don't care because they think it doesn't affect them. Well, I say they'll care when their wives, girlfriends, etc. don't give them any. That's sure going to wake them up! I vote we start this immediately!
2007-03-27 22:53:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right? Forcing a company to pay you when you're not working is now a given right? What has this world come to?
2007-03-28 13:40:22 · answer #7 · answered by maae10 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They wonder why the poor are outbreeding everyone else...
The answer is simple, because people with jobs can't afford to have kids!
2007-03-27 22:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by dharma_bum48326 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am hoping you have a company one day and have 25 pregnant employees.
2007-03-27 23:09:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How will this stop the people who are able to make these changes?
2007-03-27 22:50:28 · answer #10 · answered by Erin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sex strike? Yea,that would work...not. What would it prove and to whom?
2007-03-28 00:23:40 · answer #11 · answered by Jan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋