The Women and Equalities select committee is calling for evidence over concerns workplaces are not providing support to working fathers

/ Mike Buchanan

Interesting. But doubtless the committee’s final report will say workplaces ‘should’ do more for working fathers. Reflections:

  1. This is transparent virtue signalling, appearing to show concern for fathers, whilst not diverting any state resources to them. A double win for the state, and for this committee, to which Philip Davies has just been appointed. Maybe his appointment was the spur for this move, which is nothing more nor less than propaganda.

  2. It utterly ignores the fact that organizations are already reeling under the ‘support’ provided to working mothers. In the state sector, taxpayers – men, mainly – pay for the consequent inefficiency and ineffectiveness, while service users suffer  – the NHS is but the most obvious example at the moment – while in the private sector one consequence of the inefficiency and ineffectiveness is loss of competitiveness, a concept alien to most politicians, including the dire Maria Miller, the Conservative MP who chairs the Women & Equalities Select Committee.

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6 thoughts on “The Women and Equalities select committee is calling for evidence over concerns workplaces are not providing support to working fathers”

  1. I agree, it is virtue signalling – and playing politics, using the right terms, and having no intention whatever of actually following through. That said, it seems obvious to me that this would never have happened without Philip Davies’s presence there, so it is a result! I confidently look forward to bigger and better effects as time goes by.

    As to organisations reeling under the support provisions for working mothers, we need just look at the NHS and the present furore over hospitals being overloaded with patients who can’t get to see a GP. And why? Just try and find a GP practice these days with a male doctor. Then look at which doctors are working part-time. They’re predominantly women. In my GP surgery it is all women and ALL are working part-time.

    Then they say there aren’t enough doctors to provide a service. If all the part-time women GPs were to start working full time, it would double the workforce at a stroke, then patients could get quick appointments, and the hospital Accident & Emergency departments could go back to dealing with – yes, accidents and emergencies. Duh!

    And do we hear about this in the feminist-dominated media? No. Are the women feminists who are running the doctors’ professional bodies saying it? No. Are the feminists in parliament saying it? No. Is the government in thrall to feminism recognising the problem? NO.

    All we get is just each side blaming the other: both whingeing for more money for the NHS, while both maintain a stunning silence about the real issue, which is a bunch of women who are gaming the system, riding high on the hog because they can, divvying up the work to suit themselves, not their patients, or the NHS.

    Shedloads of taxpayers money are being thrown at training doctors (half a million a throw, at least), only to get a handful of years’ full-time work out of the women (who are now in the majority in training), rather than a lifetime of productivity as with a man – and all the while, the NHS is rapidly imploding, with patients’ cancer operations being cancelled.

    It stinks, frankly.

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    • divvying up the work to suit themselves, not their patients, or the NHS. Frankly this is the problem with the NHS as a whole. Though a big chunk of this is female doctors and other professions in the NHS. Doctors tend to marry doctors or similarly rewarded professionals so the pressure to continue to work simply isn’t there. One saw it all the time. Now of course the situation was and is very different for the basic level nurses and assistant roles.
      The whole sorry mess needs a thorough shake up.

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    • ‘Then they say there aren’t enough doctors to provide a service. If all
      the part-time women GPs were to start working full time, it would double
      the workforce at a stroke,       … ‘

      Not so: arguably it might double, triple or quadruple productivity; it cannot double the workforce, not even effectively, that is a fixed quantity. However, the likelihood is, given the results of Dr Hakim’s research, that forcing women who are disinclined to work to work is going to result in reduced productivity, reduced efficiency and increases in undiagnosed or poorly diagnosed problems.

      My own experience of female GPs, who seem not to like dealing with male health issues, forms the basis of that ‘prognosis’.

      ‘ … both whingeing for more money for the NHS, while both maintain a
      stunning silence about the real issue, which is a bunch of women who are
      gaming the system, riding high on the hog because they can, divvying up
      the work to suit themselves       … ‘

      That is just what women do: whine for more man product, deny that they are in any way responsible for any deficit in income and expenditure and make life comfortable for themselves at the expense of others.

      ‘It stinks, frankly.‘

      I wonder if I may be permitted to quote the punch line of a boozy blokey joke heard long ago: ‘Grimsby, my stop’.

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      • Brilliant point about my comment about doubling the workforce. You’re right and I am wrong. I do so love intelligent exchange. Brilliant! Wanna share the full Grimsby joke? Say that I’ve led a sheltered life if you like, but it doesn’t ring bells…

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  2. I presume too that its mere propaganda, though there is an interesting “schism” in feminism that is worth poking at. Between those wanting childcare to be the trump card for women particularly in getting resources; and those advancing men as carers in order to “free up” women to do paid work.
    Frankly I’m really rather for pushing for “more help” for fathers partly as it may practically assist, partly because its another chink in the “women “own” their offspring” but mainly because it rattles the cage of business etc. who thus far appear largely supine in this ever expanding state control.
    I note already there are constant rumblings from even female businessmen about the costs and difficulties of maternity and family friendly policies, these might get a whole lot louder if fathers are to be accorded equity.
    Generally the feminist project has benefitted from being rather low key “being nice to women” stuff in the publics eyes. The more that exposes the reality the better. Just to note that in both Local Authorities and the sectors they fund “cuts” have started a process of rolling back on many of the generous family friendly provisions. Not so the NHS and Civil service as yet.

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