March 8 - International Woman's Day

On March 8, Miss Hanne Nabintu Herland, a research on religion won’t be marching in support of International Woman’s Day. She suggests that “Today we [women], need to turn off the TV and give him a sexual surprise.”

Miss Herland says a lot of things, among what she claims is that we do have have equal pay in Norway, even though SSB indicates a NOK 15 in difference. She bases this on the following: “As women, we are not interested in leading careers, and choose lower pay positions.”

I do see that Miss Herland has a point that as women we (in the western world, mostly) have the right to choose our career, but I think Miss Herland misses the point. Why is ok for typical women’s careers, for example, nursing, to be a low(er)-pay career?

I would imagine that when the highly paid male CEO comes in with a heart attack, he prefers to have a top notch, highly qualified, and professional nurse on his team - so god darn it, pay her what she is worth when your life is at risk!

Source and Inspiration: http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/03/08/nyheter/innenriks/kvinnedagen/mannedagen/sex/10751219/

CORRECTION:

Not NOK 15, but rather 15% difference in salary between men dominated professions versus women dominated professions - big difference!