So, achieving equality with men means doing every job that a man does?

Answer 1

No. If that was the case men would also have to try and do all the jobs that women do - but most don't even try. Equality means having the same rights to do things, if YOU choose to do them. Nobody is forcing you to do anything, but it would be nice to know that the option is there. :-)

Answer 2

If you're equally qualified, then yes and vice versa. It also means that women should get equal pay for doing the same job. That's still not happening.

There's no reason why a man couldn't sell bras at a Victoria's Secrets store or be a nanny and by the same token, a woman could just as well work construction or haul garbage. By the way, not all men are stronger than all women.

Answer 3

No I think in the legislation it was comparable occupations.
I In these days of pneumatic/electronic lifting equipment no one has to be stronger to do a job. Many men woudln't want to do physcial jobs and many women do - it is just about taking gender out of the issue in terms of pay as women have always and still are quite a percentage down in terms of equal pay for equal kind sof work as each case has to be tested in law, and being able to score top jobs.

I was a trained plasterer in a workers co-operative and equality was no issue within the co-op but outside on other building sites I was called names and shouted at and assumed gay etc. etc.
At one point I was refused a job by the local council when they said they dodn't have toilets for women - They then said they didn't have toilets for men either but that the men saw themselves allright before they came on site!

Plastering is not a heavy job it requires stamina soemthign that women have a lot of but there is an old boy mystique surrounding most traditionally male jobs which prevents women from knowing whether they would like to do them or not.

Achieving equality is having equal pay and equal opportunities for comparable types of work

look up the figures you'll find we haven't got there yet and we are still mostly doing the housework and primary childcare as well. You may not be but other's are who make up the percentages.

Answer 4

There seems to be a lot of confusion about that issue. When it comes to the workplace, an employee gets hired based on various criterias but mainly, they must have the skills and the experience to carryout the tasks required as detailed by the job description regardless of their gender.Favoring one gender against the other in order to reach a so called "equality" is morally flawed and also is discriminatory based on labor laws.

Answer 5

No, it means having the same opportunity to do whatever job you want, and getting paid equal wages for equal work.

Answer 6

Not necessarily. If you are working on a project with a team of people, you are expected to bring your full potential and expertise to that project... whether you are man or woman makes no difference. It's not about competition... it's about being one of the necessary spokes that makes the wheel turn.