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Men's Equality Congress
COMMENTARY...
by
Warren Farrell
The Pay Gap: If
It's About Discrimination, Why Are Young Urban Women Earning
More?...
A recent
New York Times front page headline tells us that "For Young
Earners in Big City, Gap Shifts in Women's Favor." The big
surprise? New York City women between 21 and 30 working
full-time made 117% of men's wages. Everyone is wondering why.
Here's why, for starters...
When I did the
research for Why Men Earn More (AMACOM) in 2005, I
discovered that nationwide never-married women who had
never had children earned 117% of the wages of never-married men
who had never had children. New York City women in their
twenties are less likely to have married or had children than
women in their twenties who live in suburban and rural areas.
The overall pay gap with men earning more is not about
discrimination; it is mostly about the division of labor once
children arrive.
The usual
men-earn-more pay gap is also about trade-offs. The road to
high pay is a toll road. On average, men are more willing to
pay the tolls of the more hazardous jobs (accounting for 94% of
workplace deaths), to work on commission, relocate overseas,
travel overnight and travel weekends (approximately 90% of the
most frequent flyers are men), work late nights and night
shifts, work weekends, intensify their work commitment during
child-raising years, work in engineering, computer sciences,
technology and the hard sciences where the supply doesn't match
the demand, and do all of the twenty-five most important
trade-offs that on average lead to men earning more.
The good news is
that any woman can learn to out-earn men should she be willing
to make more of the twenty-five trade-offs than the average man
makes.
More articles by Warren Farrell on
the "Pay Gap."
1.
How I began the Discovery that Men Earn Less
than Women for the Same Work
2.
Farrell’s Research
Challenges Labor Day Myth: “Men Paid More for Same Work”
3.
WHY MEN EARN MORE:
A Personal
Introduction
VIDEO BOOK TOUR...
Presented
by
Warren Farrell
Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth
Behind the Pay Gap and What Women Can Do About It...
Warren Farrell, the only man to have been
elected three times to the National Organization for Women’s New
York board of directors, is the author of such books as The
Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are the Way They Are.
In his new book, he argues that women earn less than men on
average not because they are discriminated against, but because
they have made lifestyle choices that affect their ability to
earn. Why Men Earn More argues that although
discrimination sometimes plays a part, both men and women
unconsciously make trade-offs that affect how much they earn.
Farrell clearly defines the 25 different workplace choices that
affect incomes--including putting in more hours at work, taking
riskier jobs or more hazardous assignments, being willing to
change location, and training for technical jobs that involve
less people contact--and provides readers with specific,
research-supported ways for women to earn higher pay.
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Article... By Roya Nikkhah and Louise Hancock from
Telegraph.co.uk
Fathers4Justice take their fight
for rights across the Atlantic
They
have already sent Batman over the wall of Buckingham Palace, pelted
Tony Blair with purple flour and scaled the heights of Tower Bridge. Now
Fathers 4 Justice, the pressure group
notorious for its daredevil stunts, is to export its unorthodox
approach to lobbying across the Atlantic.
The activists believe their stunts will go down
well in the US. Prominent members of the movement, which campaigns
for greater fathers' rights in Britain's family courts, are to
advise their United States counterparts on attention-grabbing
tactics.
They claim that on a recent reconnoitre of
landmarks in New York, where they intend to stage a protest, they
were followed by the FBI. Matt O'Connor, the founder of Fathers 4 Justice,
flew to Minnesota last night and will officially launch the American
branch of the group next week. The group estimates that 25 million
American fathers face access problems.
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Videos
1.
Fathers4Justice documentary featuring Matt
O'Connor
2.
NewsNight (UK) Fathers4Justice Documentary
Article by Wendi McErroy on Fathers4Justice
in America
Father's Rights Movement to Get English Invasion
Article... By
Mike McCormick and Glenn Sacks© 2007
Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls Tells an Important Truth
About African-American Fathers
Tyler
Perry’s new movie Daddy’s Little Girls tells an important truth
about African-American fathers. The film, which reached number 5
on the Media By Numbers list of top movies, is the story of
Monty, a blue collar African-American father played by Idris
Elba. Monty fights long and hard in family court to be a father
to his three adoring little girls.
Today African-American men are often excoriated--most recently
by presidential candidate Barack Obama--for being irresponsible
towards their children. Yet we don’t hear nearly enough about
men like Monty. These dads cherish their kids and, like Monty,
often find that the family law system prevents them from playing
a meaningful role in their lives.
In the movie, Monty is raising his three girls when his ex-wife,
who has drug and personality problems, decides to demand full
custody. As is typical, she goes to family court and wins, and
Monty is given only occasional visitation with his girls. He
decides to fight this and, with the help of a lady lawyer friend
working pro bono, gets his daughters away from their abusive
mother and back with him. Of the movie’s entire storyline, the
only unusual part is the last one—most fathers cannot get shared
custody of their children, and are relegated to being mere
visitors in their children’s lives.
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Article...By Jed Diamond
The Ecology of Sex: Men, Women, and Survival in the 21st Century
It’s
clear, to anyone who has the courage to see, that if humans are to
survive the 21st century we have to change our relationship to the
natural world. Global Warming, Peak Oil, Expanding Populations, and
Economic Upheaval, remind us that we are out of balance with nature.
A new book by author Michael Gilbert, The Disposable Male: Sex,
Love, and Money—Your World Through Darwin’s Eyes, reminds us that
our disconnection from the natural world reflects itself in
dislocation between males and females. If we are going to survive we
need to reconnect with the roots of what it truly means to be a man
and a woman.
Gilbert begins his book with a clear description of the stresses
facing men and women in today’s disconnected world:
"THE EVERYDAY MALE IS IN TROUBLE.
It seems that manhood no longer requires preparation. Boys
stumble without a map onto the pathways to masculinity, forced
to learn by their own devices the essential traits and qualities
of authentic manliness.
"Without a clear sense of purpose,
young men are hardly motivated or encouraged to support their
partner and family, much less serve their community. Men’s
ancient and defining roles as resource provider and defender
have been down-sized and outsourced. Declared obsolete and cast
adrift, the modern hunter is searching for a new job
description.
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COYOTE...
monthly column by Dick Prosapio
You Poor Thing(s)...
We know
folks who live in central Texas who actually believe that we
live in a place bereft of plant life. They have heard that we
may have tumbleweeds but they are sure that the rest of the
flora runs the gamut from three or four trees to unlimited
variations on the theme of cactus. I can understand their
confusion given the amount of green stuff they have to slash
their way through every summer, their one of two seasons. The
other being ice storm.
We just returned from a trip to the tropical Texas
steam bath country where the ubiquitous sound of the air conditioner
provides the only relief from the non-stop drone of traffic. Out
here in the high and dry lands we don't get much of either.
Actually that's not totally true, we did invest in a
window air conditioner last year and used it for about a week. What
with global warming that's about triple the amount of time we needed
it the year before. We will never catch up with central Texas
however.
Hopefully.
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ARTICLE...
by Robert Glover, Ph.D.
Stop Being the "Safe
Guy"...
When I
began dating five years ago after 25 years of marriage, I
quickly discovered that being "nice" only attracted women who
just wanted to be "friends". This didn't surprise me.
Twenty-five years of listening to women talk about their
relationships in couples counseling had already taught me that
while a woman wants to be treated well by her man, she isn't
turned on by a partner who is constantly seeking her approval.
Having an "edge" is confusing to
Nice Guys. All they can hear is that they would have to become
like the "Asshole/Jerk" that they've been trying to be different
from all of their lives.
Having an edge doesn't mean being
a jerk. It means being real. Being yourself. Taking risks.
Challenging yourself. Having a life. Letting go of a need for
external validation. Regardless of whether you are single or in
a relationship, here are a few suggestions for developing an
"edge".
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JEFF'S LIFE:
Raising an Autistic Child... monthly
column by Jeff Stimpson
Quite an Enterprise...
"Sleepy's:
For the rest of your life!" -- slogan of a New York-area bedding
store.
Alex's sleep issues refuse to
quit. At bedtime we still pour into him melatonin, along with
his Topamax. A few hours before that, he gets his daily dose of
calcium. Jill says he drinks milk when he first gets home from
school, and he often has a banana now for dessert at dinner, so
the real food's there. So why does he bounce up most nights?
For about a year, there's been an
undertow of tired in me. At any moment I may have to shake my
head. If I start to stretch at my desk, I cannot stop yawning.
The undertow has been building for a long time. "Alex bustles
lately between 3 and 5 a.m. Jill and I have worked out a
strategy for overnight, in which one of us handles the kids if
they get up, the other gets up at 6:30 to wake Alex for the
school bus. On weekends, we split Night Duty at 4 o'clock." I
wrote that three years ago.
"He bounces up anywhere from 1:30
to 4, and is sometimes up chirping for one to two hours." That
was a year ago.
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS...
monthly column by
Mark Brandenburg,
M.A
Do You Feel
Unappreciated in Your Family ?...
I’d
had about as much as I could handle for one day.
My computer was frozen, I was tired from a weekend with little
sleep, and I was working in a yard that would soon need a scythe
to cut it. Kids activities were crowding an already crowded
schedule, and there seemed like no time to relax.
When do other people find the time to do all these things?
As I entered my house, I marveled at how sore a human body could
get from yard work. I was still annoyed that my kids had left
stuff in the backyard after repeated requests to pick them up.
And, I’d been noticing that the rest of my family had done their
share of relaxing while I toiled in the yard. I needed about a
month to get caught up, and I was not ready for any more to be
put on my plate.
“Honey, will you make dinner?” my wife called from the family
room.
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