From BBC website today, the more generous UK maternity laws are damaging to womens' careers, and Mr "ancient type of business man" sir Alan Sugar comments t hat he would ignore CV:s from women in "childbearing ages"... see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7504637.stm
Women now get 9 months paid maternity leave, or another 3 months on top of that unpaid, and that is appearantly too long to stay competitive. Men get a whole 10 days paternity leave in the UK...
Also recently in the news, the church has the other week voted that they should allow women bishops in the UK.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7494517.stm (yes, you read correctly, just the other week... in 2008...) and a lot of male (well.. obviously) bishops are now threatening to leave the church...
I simply don't know where to start..... Grrrrrrr..... Maybe the Swedish "Raggare" movement are right, things were simply better in the 1950:s when very few women worked outside their homes and didn't have the financial security to leave??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggare
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