Sh also dabbles in the odd paper vote-grab/editorial/opinion piece but rest assured although she represents Fremantle (and you' hope the whole of WA as a minister), although she's responsible for Child Protection, Community Services and a few other things its on female related stuff she'll prattle on about. Yes women certainly need the fair play of equal opportunity and not have any extra hurdles put in their path because they're women. But the equality of outcome is a Socialist Construct that needs tobe feared and Simone McGurk may have to be monitored to she how socialist (i.e. unfair) she is. The Socialist pathway of Equal Outcomes seeks to forget opportunity & removal of unfair hurdles, it wants to go straight to equal results, where the gender balance in a workplace is 50% women & 50% men.
Not 100% equal opportunity to secure the outcome you then have to deserve. Indeed there are not 50% women applicants for all jobs so how can you expect 50% women employed unless that is the percentage of women amongst the best people for the job.
Simone writes an article which employs a number of intellectually corrupt devices to build her premise of pushing more women into particular fields. One of them is using Leukaemia Survivor, 7 year old Madeleine who said women can do anything. Well that's quite wrong. Men can't do anything, nor can women. Some men & women can do things that others can't. Madeleine wants to grow up to be a Scientist. Her only barrier to reaching that career goal will not be her confidence or goal setting, but whether she passes the appropriate exams when she's looking for tertiary admission and to complete university. There's no gender barrier here. Its a heart string attached straw man thing...
Its also quite noticeable Ms McGurk never talks about gender equality in other particularly male dominated fields. Nothing about shoring up gender equality in brick laying, truck driving, plumbing or any other trade based field or labouring. SHE ONLY FOCUSES ON HIGH PAID WHITE COLLAR OCCPATIONS, ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCE TO MANUAL LABOUR AT ALL.
Yes executive roles, CEOs in ASX firms are cited, numbers in Parliament...but nothing about too many women & not enough men in nursing or on check out tills, or too many men in ditches, in heavy equipment, welding or fitting a roof to house or brick paving...zero.
Why, because not many women apply for these jobs, if they do they'd soon have to be as profitable to keep on as the average labourer. There is no gender refusal scheme happening. There's few women because firstly there's very few applying.
I know lady sparkies, mechanics, shearers, truckies and some labourers out in the sun & the heat on the tools. They didn't get the job because they were female. They didn't get the job because the firm needed females. They got the jobs because despite how few women ever apply, they were qualified and more than able of being good at their job...like any successful male who picked up a job in the same company or the same field.
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.
I'm not sure why the gender bias is heralded as some thing that has to be fixed. Best person for the job irrespective of their gender is what I thought it should be all about. Their merit, not their gender.
Equal Outcomes, the Socialist answer means, just get 50% women in there as quick as possible, whatever it takes. That's quotarising the workplace and merit suffers.
I think we have to push to applicants and employers that it has to be 100% EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, best merit gets the job, not what will lead to a predetermined "balance"
Oddly many Social Justice Warrior type Socialists are hell bent on transgender people being regarded as the gender they choose and we all have to accept it.
Well if we follow that equally stupid premise we just need half the members of parliament to declare they "self-identify" as female (whether they are or not) and we'll have proper gender balance.
Simone has a long way to go before she's a half decent MP...and its not because of her gender. The Perth Socialist Party (WALabor) must have picked her because she was all about spruiking equal outcomes and NOT equal opportunity & merit.
Such is the Socialist was.
If all Socialists understood Socialism, there'd be no Socialism nor any bizarre & intellectually bankrupt "equality" screamers.
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