tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post5861545652908321067..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: New model vs old modelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-76827559613123235152012-06-05T07:22:24.118+10:002012-06-05T07:22:24.118+10:00Australia has the worst paid parental leave in the...<i>Australia has the worst paid parental leave in the developed world and ranks abysmally low in gender equality. Go figure.</i><br /><br />Anon, you've been deceived.<br /><br />The whole point of "gender equality" is to get women out of the home and into the workforce. <br /><br />In other words, the more that women lose the choice to be home with their child the higher Australia ranks in "gender equality".<br /><br />So it's no use calling for more gender equality as a strategy to allow women to stay at home with their children.<br /><br />What's needed is something more courageous - a rethink of the assumptions underlying our understanding of what "gender equality" means.<br /><br />If gender equality is thought to mean "maximum autonomy for women" then there's no point even trying to preserve a model in which a highly committed husband works hard to allow his wife to spend time at home with their children. That model will no longer be supported culturally or economically.<br /><br />So the question is whether we can start to think about things differently. Maybe equality has more to do with an equal balancing or valuing of roles rather than maximising female autonomy. Maybe it's about an interdependence in which higher aims are served for men, women and the larger society.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-41960576898763138752012-06-05T01:31:04.928+10:002012-06-05T01:31:04.928+10:00Australia has the worst paid parental leave in the...Australia has the worst paid parental leave in the developed world and ranks abysmally low in gender equality. Go figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-28072407614281716702012-06-04T14:41:34.809+10:002012-06-04T14:41:34.809+10:00Remove the legal benefits of De facto relationship...Remove the legal benefits of De facto relationships and then remove no-fault divorce.<br /><br />First steps certainly, and much more would need to be done, but those steps interacting with basic human biology would lead to a more traditionalist society.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-48539645688304701702012-06-04T04:09:24.196+10:002012-06-04T04:09:24.196+10:00Women should stop the sluthood lifestyle and flash...Women should stop the sluthood lifestyle and flashing their bodies everywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61047134129874143282012-06-03T23:53:34.792+10:002012-06-03T23:53:34.792+10:00I would add another item...
Don't divorce friv...I would add another item...<br />Don't divorce frivolously, because that would take away many of the incentives men have to be productive.Licorne Negronoreply@blogger.com