An article (£) in yesterday’s Sunday Times. The explanations for why women take twice as much time off work as men include stress, depression, anxiety, systemic neglect, neurobiological overload, social gaslighting, discrimination, sexism, ageism, the menopause (including ‘brain fog’, in the light of which, should menopausal women be barred from driving cars, flying planes etc.?)… It’s a miracle women ever turn up for work at all. An extract:
“Workers in governmental public administration and defence roles, in the education sector and in health and social work were the most stressed out.”
Women take more time off work despite working considerably fewer hours, and “unsocial hours” in particular. In the UK, approximately 36% of women in employment work part-time, while 14% of men work part-time. No mention is made of these facts in the article, nor that women have an inferior work ethic, as we know from Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory.
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And of course they “crowd” into the public sector where having “flexible” hours and taking time off is far easier to do. So women head to work in the sectors most likely to give you time off. I remember being shocked when I started work for City Council to be told that as well as generous annual leave I also had 2 weeks sickness leave that I should be sure to take during the year! Even the “full time” work is less hours than in the private sector. So its perfectly logical for women to seek to work in the public sector.
All these sorts of articles amuse me because they pull together convincing data that would confirm a. that the sexes are in fact different in general and b. there are good reasons for employers in competitive sectors to be wary of employing too many women as they are less productive!
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