That said, gender bias a real thing in hiring and faculty practices in the US.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...
http://www.upenn.edu/provost/images/uploads/Gender.Racial_.B... (pdf warning)
That said, gender bias a real thing in hiring and faculty practices in the US.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...
http://www.upenn.edu/provost/images/uploads/Gender.Racial_.B... (pdf warning)
All genders face gender discrimination. For example, the country I live in is a Nordic country often hailed for equality, but the state forces all men to do slave-labour for the government. Men and women face about the same amount of gender discrimination in Western nations. Men's problems include more severe jail sentences, forced labour, lack of father's rights and so on. Interesting fact: majority of rape victims in USA are male.[1]
1. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/men-outnumber-women-among-a...
This has been addressed a couple of times. Note that 1) the 216,000 number is for victims of "sexual abuse" which doesn't necessarily mean "rape" and 2) not all inmates of penitentiaries are male.
This is true, but it should be noted that gender discrimination is fundamentally related to patriarchy and misogyny.
> For example, the country I live in is a Nordic country often hailed for equality, but the state forces all men to do slave-labour for the government.
I don't know anything about this so I can't really comment.
> Men and women face about the same amount of gender discrimination in Western nations.
I'm from the US, so I can't speak for every place, but that is most certainly not true here. Women and trans* folks are far more likely to experience sexual assault and violence compared to men and generally women face systemic issues revolving around family and work that men do not.
> Men's problems include more severe jail sentences, forced labour, lack of father's rights and so on.
In the US, its not just men that are more likely to receive jail time, but esp. black and hispanic men. There are systemic issues with racism that perpetuate this problem and this is intersectional with systemic issues with gender. All prisoners suffer from work programs that are essentially indentured servitude and forced work (not sure if that is what you were getting at).
In the US lack of "father's rights" is a red herring. Men have a high success rate in getting custody in family court when they pursue custody, however men do not pursue custody nearly as often. Also, any kind of bias or discrimination in favor of women in family court is rooted in misogyny in the first place.
> Interesting fact: majority of rape victims in USA are male.
This because the rates of rape for men overwhelmingly come from prisons and being incarcerated. Further more, this isn't really that useful of a thing to say anyway outside of the context of prisoners rights and prison abolition, as women do face high rates of sexual assault and rape and most perpetrators of rape are never convicted.
Making faith based statements like that and acting as though they are evidence based is not productive. There is no evidence to support feminist mythology surrounding their redefinition of patriarchy.
>In the US lack of "father's rights" is a red herring.
No it is not. A system that was equal would begin with shared custody as the default, and a case would need to be made to remove either parent's custody based on their being unfit. A system where men are required to spend considerable time and money fighting to get less custody than women get by default is not equal. The reason men have high success in getting custody when they pursue it is because they almost exclusively pursue it in cases where there is substantial evidence that the mother is grossly unfit. Have a man talk to a custody lawyer while you listen in. They will universally tell you not to bother pursuing custody unless you have proof the mother is an addict or has allowed another man to assault the children frequently. Using selection bias to dismiss valid concerns makes it appear as though you have a vested interest in maintaining inequality.
>This because the rates of rape for men overwhelmingly come from prisons and being incarcerated.
And those don't count because of what?
Cool; how about some evidence for your custody assertions?
> There is no evidence to support feminist mythology surrounding their redefinition of patriarchy.
Systemic sexism is widely documented. This ranges from pay gaps [1] to harsher views on overweight women vs men [2] to sexual assault [3]. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you objecting to appropriation of the word 'patriarchy'?
[1] http://www.oecd.org/social/family/LMF1.5%20Gender%20pay%20ga...
[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1108%2F02610150910937916
[3] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF
> And those don't count because of what?
Read the next sentence. Male rape is predominantly a the parent isn't saying that male rape victims "don't count".
Oh?
>This ranges from pay gaps
Which are a deliberately misleading "problem" feminists like to complain about, but which don't actually exist.
>harsher views on overweight women vs men
Where? You mean personal preferences? Like how short men are viewed harsher than short women? That is not systemic.
>to sexual assault
Where the actual systemic problem is that the government deliberately misrepresents male rape victims by not counting "forced envelopment" as rape?
>Read the next sentence. Male rape is predominantly a the parent isn't saying that male rape victims "don't count".
You didn't make their point any clearer.
Also, you clearly didn't bother to glance over any of the data I provided. You probably should, especially about the extremely well documented gendered pay gap. Denying that such a gap exists when there are mountains of evidence to the contrary only makes you sound ignorant and chauvinistic.
I'd still like citations on the male custody and on this 'forced envelopment' business.
I have no idea why you have such a hard time with the FBI rape stats, googling "forced envolpment" would get you what you want: http://www.good.is/posts/the-fbi-expands-its-definition-of-r...
Although Norway's government decided this year to make military service mandatory for both genders. So I'm assuming that parent is from Finland, Sweden or Denmark.
I don't agree with your definition.
>I'm from the US, so I can't speak for every place, but that is most certainly not true here. Women and trans* folks are far more likely to experience sexual assault and violence compared to men and generally women face systemic issues revolving around family and work that men do not.
I disagree, even with US. Men face more violence than women, for example.
>In the US lack of "father's rights" is a red herring. Men have a high success rate in getting custody in family court when they pursue custody, however men do not pursue custody nearly as often. Also, any kind of bias or discrimination in favor of women in family court is rooted in misogyny in the first place.
Ah, so discrimination against men is actually discrimination against women? I disagree with your invented definition.
I suffered more age discrimination after a certain point in my career than gender discrimination.
And he does mention he went over the top crafting his resume...