In PM's World, Girls Will Be Herded Back To The Kitchen, And

Written By: 4Canada
Date: 2006-10-15 13:10:24
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In a recent move that got relatively little attention, the Harper government actually removed the word "equality" from the list of goals of Status of Women Canada, ending decades of advocacy for equality on the part of that federal agency.

Such advocacy itself is now under attack. The Harper government has cut off funding for advocacy done by women's organizations, which have fought hard to overcome discrimination that has, for instance, left women earning substantially less than men, regardless of occupation, age or education. Canadian women earn 72 cents for every dollar a man earns.

This pay gap exists despite federal and provincial pay equity laws, and would undoubtedly be bigger if it weren't for women's groups pressuring governments to enforce and strengthen these laws, despite opposition from business.

The Conservatives have also stopped funding women's groups that carry out research about women's status. Evidently, the less women know about their inferior status, the better. These moves are aimed at appealing to Harper's base of social conservatives and religious right wingers, but are wildly out of sync with the Canadian mainstream.

Pollster Michael Adams notes that, while Americans have become more deferential to patriarchal authority in recent years, Canadians have gone dramatically in the opposite direction. As Adams writes in his book, Fire and Ice: "Canadians' more egalitarian views regarding the status of women and the structure of the family ... seem to lead them to a more relaxed view of what constitutes a family."

No wonder the Harper crowd is apoplectic. This "more relaxed view of the structure of the family" implies the very things they oppose — single-parent families, working mothers and gay marriage.

Hence Harper's decision to cancel the national child-care plan, created by the Liberals last year after decades of advocacy by women's groups.

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[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 16, 2006]

With Canada's Jewish population at only around 1% why do politicians fall all over themselves to proclaim their friendship to Israel?

Why can't we have a debate in this country about whether or not what Israel is doing is indeed in violation of international laws without being branded an anti semite?

Maybe, when the Afghan women throw off their burqas, Harper and his buds will be picking them up cheap, for distribution here in Canada. Perhaps, if the Cons keep CBC, they can resurrect My Three Sons and Father Knows Best 
<a href="http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html">http://www.robinsweb.com/humor/good_wife.html</a>--- "Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

The average family in this day and age pretty well needs two incomes to live. To force women out of their jobs and back into "the home" will ensure a rise in poverty levels, increase in welfare etc. That is not even taking into account the single parent "family"... the "head" of which is usually female. If this is what is actually on Harper's mind, he'll lose the vote of women, no problem. That is, unless he manages to take their vote away too. Can't imagine he'd tackle that one though, but hey you never know!

The agenda here seems to be to turn back the clock on women's equality not necessarily on forcing women out of the workplace. It seems to be more focused on keeping women from progressing any further. This is both to make the religious fundamentalists, who oppose women's equality with men, happy and at the same time protects the corporate glass ceiling established through the male dominance of the CEO level.

<blockquote> The agenda here seems to be to turn back the clock on women's equality not necessarily on forcing women out of the workplace. </blockquote> Ah.....the return of slavery. It was only a matter of time.--- "Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

Follow the money, and you'll find your answer.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

The blatant contradiction between what "social converatives" are trying to enforce and what the holy book they claim to follow actually says speaks volumes.

“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?” (1 John 3:16-18 NIV).

"Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;"
Jeremiah 22;13 KJV.

Paying a woman less than a man for the same work is the same as theft, and last time I checked there was a commandment that stated quite cleary: Thos shalt not steal.

God has always been in favour of fair and honest wages.

Makes one wonder just which "god" the "social conservatives" follow.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

<blockquote> The blatant contradiction between what "social converatives" are trying to enforce and what the holy book they claim to follow actually says speaks volumes. </blockquote> But then, hasn't that been the way of ALL "organized" religions? In fact, I would not hesitate to put forward the proposition that religions were organized primarily by those who (like Harper) would see distinct control put on society. The primary function of orgainzed religion is the worship of control and obedience. --- "Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

<a href="http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs2/pfhe.html">http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs2/pfhe.html</a>--- "Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

God has been replaced by the CEO, the crucifix by the $ and the holy grail is the Amero

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Everybody got to deviate from the norm

As always, they will pick the Bible verses that suit their own desires, and focus on those. Arguments over the status of women as taught in the Bible have been going on for a long time.

<blockquote>The primary function of orgainzed religion is the worship of control and obedience.</blockquote> That about nails it.

"As always, they will pick the Bible verses that suit their own desires, and focus on those. Arguments over the status of women as taught in the Bible have been going on for a long time."

Anyone who picks and choses Bible verses on the basis of what profits them and their cause rather than on the basis of truth, justice, and respect for the rights of others, is in my opinion, not only a denier of whatever faith they claim to have, they are also revealing themselves to be utter fools.

God gave people brains for a reason, and thet reason was not to give your fellow human beings the shaft.

Too bad "social conservatives" are too wrapped up in their own ideology to see it.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush