Do women have equal opportunities as men in your country?

Sounds like they are really trying to treat man and women equally, wish we would have a cleaner though! ;) thanks for your comment!

you are generalising every mother as well as every young girl/man. Not every young girl is willing to travel, stay late and work more hours, some of them have a life too. And not every mother will come running if Timmy scraped his knee. Most mothers that have a carreer have made a well thought through decision and alway have backup plans when something happens to Timmy, in case he gets sick or has to go to an appointment. They organise their life well so they can have a job, and the backup plan takes care of timmy. They can travel for work and stay overtime if they choose too. I agree that there are women that grasp every call about Timmy as an excuse to not go to work but are there not young men/ women that use excuses too? The younger girl / man should only be paid more if she is more skilled and performs better. If they are working more hours, off course they get more. You get paid by the hour. But if mother do the same they too should be paid more. Woman do not get the same opportunities as men, if they are offered the same opportunities they would be likely to accept them, it is not thei choice. It is a choice men made for them. However this is changing. a mother can work as much as someone that does not have kids. It is proven time and time again. And why should the mother be effected by the fact she has kids, why is a man not effected for the fact he is a father. You say woman come running to Timmy but Timmy has a dad too. Man expect the woman to be the one experiencing the inconvenience of the kids being sick and it does not even come to mind that it might as well be the dad that goed home to take care of poor little Timmy. interesting comments you made, thanks!

okay okay, I agree with you on some points. thanks for the insights on your response. Agree I would not hire a competent jerk! And also agree that nature programmed humans so that the woman is more likely to come running to Timmy, however I think there are more and more women that do no respond to this programc and decide to do otherwise. Maybe humanity will evolve and our nature will evolve with it, but who knows? We will see! Thanks for your response!

I live in the Philippines where most of the CEO's in big companies are women. There are more women than man in my country and if i'm not mistaken the ratio is 7:1. So with this, women came up with equal abilities and intelligence as men and sometimes much better with no offense to men. It can be noticed that in the classrooms from grade school up to university, there are more women than men and they excel academically. In fact in the Philippine Military Academy, women are excelling too. So I think i would be having difficulty if i move in another country which doesn't give equal opportunities to women.

Which country are you living in? I think you are lucky too. We also have priviliges for pregnant women but when it comes to financial cutbacks, it is usually those women that get fired first. They think it is too much hassle. Women with children are difficult, kids get sick and all. Not realising that a ton of woman have those things well organised and when the kids get sick they have a plan b or even plan c, all worked out to go into action and the job does not suffer at all. I would love a minister-president here that is a woman! It is only guys that lead or country's senate so the speak.

I forgot we DO have a queen, who is holding on to her trone like a guard dog. However she has little to none influence in our country's management.

Personally, I think this equal opportunities thing is a bit overdone. In some aspects such as education, right to speech etc. it makes a lot of sense. But in some other things like jobs etc it does not make real sense. For e.g. a male cannot conceive however much we strike in front of god for equal opportunity. So if the society wants the females to have a slightly less stressful life, with kids around that is not inequality. In fact, I would love to sit at my home and keep playing with my kids without really worrying about my next deadline :) Cheers! Ram

Good to hear that changes are coming. I mean a woman on top in the Government that is really promissing. What do you think is needed to get this development going in whole your country. Do you think it is even possible to get equal opportunities in the villages or is it a matter of old traditions. Will there be more chance to equal opportunities for women once the next generation will be mature?

I think it is great you have female CEO's. This I never experienced here for myself. I guess there will be one or two but never heard of it. We claim to be developed as such but I think the lack of female CEO's is proof that we still have a long way to go. When the salarý;s there would be equal I would say Canada is already very equal to both genders. This should be in more countries,

Is it like that for all people there or are there still groups that do it otherwise. I mean are there groups of people that still use old traditions. Traditions like during the olden age you mentioned? Here the elderly still live like it is 50 years ago. Women do the home work and men do chores around the house.

maybe it is time to modernise these books. There are stories in there mentioning horses carrying people to a far away village to register themselves but nowadays we don't ride horses anymore and there is a townhall in almost every village. Also there were people hung onto crosses to die, we dont do that anymore either. It is not exactly the story that is important it is the lesson that they mean to tell you. When the bible says you should respect the man because he cares for the family, it could as well say the woman if she cares for the family. I think the bible is not meant to say who is most important woman or man but it teaches us that even if u are different we should all be treated equally. The people with lepr were put in separation but jesus went to them, everybody is equal and deserves the same. That is why women and men should be treated the same.

O am afraid this is going on in many companies and country's. They will never admit this but it is a matter of paying attention to see this happen. Do you think this will ever change? Any idea how this would be possible?

It will not change at all as long as most of the bosses, even in the branch where I work, are men and men first judge with their eyes. Overweight me will have to work perfect and work much harder than the female colleague with the nice slim body who will be pardoned for her mistakes with out even so much as apologizing for them.

You mentioned, when the children know how to look after themselves, they are all on their own. At what age is that? Do we talk about 16 and above or youger children? Do their parents not cook for them or anything? You also mention that if women spend time at home and take care of stuff these bad things wont happen. What if men would stay at home and would take care of stuff then the result would be the same now wouldnt it? Why should the woman stay at home? Is it still cultural decided that it is the woman that does the caring for the kids? Where are you at, what country, just wondering? thanks for your comment!

I think there are also a lot of mum women that chose to get their carreer going. They chose to put the kids in daycare and get a job. While the younger women are expected to get a job. I think especially those mum choosing to work are eager to work and more energetic, productive and most of all more motivated to do the job and do the job well. Also they are the ones with the experience, not only jobexperience but also life experience. I think the reason why the het chosen is just that they are more pleasant to look at and when they have the qualifications... Another reason could be that young woman do not get high salaries, the salaries are usually partly based on age and this could also be in their advantage. I agree with you that it is not a matter of gender but a matter of performance!