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Women should be paid so much more. #RESPECT

A study which matched countries with their nearest socio-demographic/economic neighbor found that female-led countries had fewer #COVID cases & deaths than male-led countries. A key factor: the female-led countries locked down earlier.https://t.co/w3FdsocuiA

— Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@amydiehl) August 1, 2020

On Women Leaders in Coronavirus: Click to GO DEEPER

A better take on the 'women leaders are doing better' thing: authoritarian populist leaders (Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan, Trump) are screwing up, and they tend to be men /1 https://t.co/geVQeCPc9v

— Debbie Cameron (@wordspinster) April 26, 2020

"Remember their names, they are (re)shaping the future."

More examples of global leaders who happen to be women and doing an admirable job through the pandemic.#leadership #femaleleaders #womenleaders #advancingwomenhttps://t.co/n2mSjSRIri

— CEOX (@ProjectCEOX) April 27, 2020

Female leaders are doing a better job of handling the #COVID19 crisis than men, the @ecb’s chief Christine Lagarde has said, praising them for honest communication and for showing they care. Via @theguardian https://t.co/kbuGXdyUJ4 #womenleaders #womeninpolitics pic.twitter.com/ykROT3l160

— iKNOW Politics (@iKNOW_Politics) August 3, 2020

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Heyyyyy, what kind of work do you want?

Low-stress, Productive, Repetitive, Fun, Flexible - we don't all want/need the same things in a job.

Here is a wonderful resource page on JOBS FOR LAZY PEOPLE 

Here is a previous post on 'ODD' Jobs that may just be right for you



You may also like: Unbundling Women's Work

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Unbundling women's work

 #SDG5 

In addition to paid labour in the workplace, it is customary for women to be burdened with a large amount of unpaid labour in many of these categories:

Pregnancy and childbirth
Physical childcare - bathing, feeding, cuddling and so on
Earliest childhood education - before schooling

Nutrition and catering services / Food and beverage handling
Bed-and-breakfast (hospitality) management for family and guests
Home care and facilities management

Personal grooming and fashion duties
Laundry, grooming, and related duties for spouse, children, others 
Public relations officer and relationship manager to teachers, extended family, and friends
Public appearance duties

Partnership towards external projects or goals
Counseling for spouse
Companionship for spouse
Entertainment and leisure

Emotional labour and relationship maintenance
Physical wellness and personal care
Bedmatics and sexytime work 

Nursing and healthcare services
Primary parent and child-handler for about twenty years
Shopper, Driver, Nanny, miscellaneous
Chief Operating Officer position in some busy homes, with or without a Chief Executive Officer 

Not every woman will attempt to do all of these things, and most women could find better things to do instead.  Some men could find fresh opportunities in so-called women's work.
 
I can see many of these jobs being unbundled into expert industries and fields:  catering services, life-counseling, spa services, co-living and managed housing, personal shoppers, health, entertainment, childcare, elder-care, concierge, cleaning, fashion, and so on.       

Some people, male and female, may be better off specializing in one or two or maybe three areas at most, and not try to be "superwoman" who is poorly compensated, and society may find itself better for it. 
Some people may relish the combined role, the traditional 'wife and mother' role.  For those who do it, male or female they may be, and still manage to do it all very well, I hope they can be very well compensated.

The current situation is that many women do their best with this combined homemaker role and are not well compensated for it at all, then they combine this with doing their best in an external job role, and there they are also less well compensated for their work than men doing the same work.

We say we appreciate women as individuals and citizens, or women as wives and mothers, or women as friends and lovers, or women as leaders and workers, but as a society we cheat them and leave them tired AND broke.   

There is nothing romantic about female poverty.  It's time to change. 

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Stop Disturbing Women.

Enjoy this lively cross-generational dialogue about tradition and girls' right to achieve.  Length: 50 minutes.



Indra Nooyi - Leads PepsiCo as Chairperson-CEO.  Tenure from 2006-2018.  Considered one of the world's best company leaders and highly paid (she earned over $30 million salary in 2017)  

Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, a leading Bollywood actress AND Hollywood celebrity ( Her social media followers on facebook, twitter, and instagram number more than 37, 23, and 27 million respectively )  

Forbes - covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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Enjoy these thought-provoking clips: on the sociology of marriage, ageing, and groups. 
I have a 2 hour a day online-video habit now, but it may be a good thing. 

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You like money. You like (white) chicks. How do you feel about female billionaires?

-- see one-page catalog 

Just don't go and disgrace yourself. 
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Equality and the example of Iceland

How long will it take to close the global gender gap?

Very interesting. 
....

The Global Gender Gap Report 2017 has recently been released, courtesy of WEF - the World Economic Forum. Some highlights:

The world is very far from gender parity in politics and $$ , but closer to gender parity in health and education.

No country in the world has fully closed its gender gap, but four out of the five Nordic countries and, for the first time this year, one country each from the Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions—Rwanda, Nicaragua and Slovenia—have closed more than 80% of theirs. 
Yemen, the lowest-ranking country, has closed slightly less than 52% of its gender gap. 

Nigeria is not in the top 100.  

What is the secret to Iceland’s success? What are the lessons learned? In short, it is that gender equality does not come about of its own accord.  Read: This is why Iceland ranks first for gender equality

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Because we ain't got time to waste time no mo'

There is so much truth in this, it hurts. @MichelleObama on the fools who get free passes to the top table...
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— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2017

Congresswoman @RepMaxineWaters has his antidote #Reclaimingmytime pic.twitter.com/fUw1B5CGhk

— Soni Akoji (@akoji007) August 20, 2017

Which inspired a song!

I just rediscovered this and it makes me so happy #ShePersisted #ReclaimingMyTime Reclaiming My Time -Gospel Mix https://t.co/PXRtoUtgfi

— Farheen Qurashi, MD (@fqurashi) September 22, 2017

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Let's really break this all the way down: 

If the door is open to women as well as men, then SAY SO

Here’s a real female-slanted job posting for a chief technology officer at a company, with its name changed to Acme:

And here’s a CTO job-listing that skews male:

Source: HuffingtonPost.com - High-Paying Job Listings Are Written To Attract Men, Study Finds

Where do you stand on this? 

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Earning and Ego in the African family

Long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...
Not really :)
Men hunted, gathered, warred, and brought home an alien sliced and salted bit of pig meat called bacon.
Women cooked this thing, cleaned house meticulously, supported man unflinchingly, all the while dressed neatly and attractively in mellow yellow shirt and single-row of pearls.
Everyone lived happily ever after.

Nowadays, we have a new fable: 
Women march off to work and often win a delightful prize called bread, which many in these parts would rather have than bacon.

As before, men are free to hunt, gather, war, and bring home various cuts of meat, bearing in mind that physicians say fish and lean beef, as part of a low-fat, low sodium diet, are better for overall health.
 Now,
winning great quantities of bread is a good thing UNLESS this winner is a married woman.  Marriage interacts with earning in such a way that everybody does not live happily ever after.

Homie, we still cool? . . .  No, we are definitely not cool.

But why?
And what can be done?
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Akoba, Adaba, ...

The legal dispute between a Silicon Valley VC and his former mistress is getting even uglier. 

Last week, Michael Goguen, a now former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, was sued for "sexually, physically and emotionally" abusing a woman for more than 12 years.

On Monday, Goguen filed a countersuit, alleging that the woman, Amber Laurel Baptiste, was extorting him...MORE from CNN/Money

Olorun ma je'a ri alakoba (translate) 

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