Gales are currently tearing through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as they generally do at this time of year, bringing down power lines, and more. On BBC News 24 a few minutes ago, a decidedly unstressed spokeswoman for a Scottish utility company cheerily remarked to her interviewer:
Hundreds of our guys are out there doing all they can to restore power to people’s homes.
Two questions:
1. Where are the calls for gender equality in dangerous outdoors jobs, in unpleasant conditions, where employees – men, invariably – have no choice but to work unsocial hours? 96% of work-related deaths in the UK are of men.
2. Where are the calls for gender equality in safe indoors 9 – 5 jobs, in pleasant conditions, which women gravitate towards, whilst whining about the gender pay gap?
Justice for Men & Boys 
Noy only are men doing all the dangerous work,but to add insult to injury,they have a female spokswoman,to make it ‘more gender balanced’ I suppose….. what a joke !
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Where are the calls for gender equality amongst grave diggers?
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Or sewage workers, garbage collectors, long-distance lorry drivers, construction workers… in fact ANY of the ‘glass cellar’ jobs?
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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It is interesting isn’t it? Clearly the men working to keep our utilities ( and much else) going in our long winter will often work long and ” unsocial” hours . Should these men be fathers such ” selfishness” in putting their work before perhaps attending the school nativity or scooting off to Argos for that Malibu Barbie, will be castigated as uncaring and remote.
Perhaps to ensure gender equality the good ladies of Fawcett Soc. will go without light, heat , power and put tyre chains on their Chelsea Tractors and forgo rail travel. So that family friendly hours are available all year round.!
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The ‘good ladies’ of Fawcett Soc?
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