Ladies its time you gave your jobs up.

Dub13 · Mar 1, 2009

Yes according to NEWTON EMERSON in the Irish Times today 'Working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch'.So come on girls hand the job back to a man and everything will be fine.

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Working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch

NEWTON EMERSONNEWTON'S OPTIC: THE ANSWER to all our problems is staring us in the face. It may even be quite literally staring at you, right now, across the breakfast table.

So put the paper down, stare back and ask yourself a selfless question.
Does the woman in your life really need a job?

Admittedly, this is not a fashionable question. From Iceland to Australia, men are blamed for causing the credit crunch, while a more feminine approach to finance is proposed as the solution.

Of course there will always be a place in the world of business for exceptional women. Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching. But the general employment of women is another matter.

Indeed, working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch by bringing a second income into the average household, pushing property prices up to unsustainable levels.

Whether working women actually caused the credit crunch is now a moot point. The point is that removing women from the workforce would mitigate its effects.

Consider the issue of unemployment. There were 221,301 men on the live register last month and just under one million women in work.

Surely at least half these women have a partner who is earning? Surely at least half would be happier at home? One half of one half is a quarter and one quarter of a million is roughly 221,301. I think we can all see where this argument is going.

It would be ludicrous to suggest that women should be sacked purely to give men their jobs. In many cases, their jobs should be abolished as well.
Women are twice as likely as men to work in the public sector. They account for two-thirds of the Civil Service and three- quarters of all public employees.

Yet they are barely represented in the useful public services of firefighting and arresting people. Encouraging women to leave the workforce would go a long way towards addressing the budget deficit without any downside whatsoever.

Further benefits of sacking women have been uncovered by the Central Gender Mainstreaming Unit at the Department of Justice. According to its research, twice as many woman as men travel to work by bus and train, potentially halving the impact of cutbacks in public transport. However, it is probable that three-quarters of the Central Gender Mainstreaming Unitâ€™s staff are women, so these figures should be taken with a pinch of salt.

While the economic case for fewer women in the workforce is irrefutable, we should also acknowledge the social advantages. Women make the majority of spending decisions in Irish households and make almost all of the purchases. They are far more likely than men to regard shopping as a leisure activity, far less likely to make savings and investments, and were even almost twice as likely to spend their SSIAs.

In short, women were the driving force behind the greed, consumerism and materialism of the Celtic Tiger years and it was female employment that funded their oestrogen-crazed acquisitiveness.

The time has come to build a more sustainable, equitable and progressive society. Why not make a start by telling your other half to quit her job? She can ask you for the housekeeping on Friday.
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Garrett · Mar 1, 2009

LOL

- Im amazed there's not been more comments here on this already

Rover 609 · Mar 1, 2009

GaryMc · Mar 1, 2009

A womans work is never done.

in fairness there are not too many women in the Irish Goverment or where on the board of Anglo Irish.

Rover 609 · Mar 1, 2009

FAO sean

sean · Mar 1, 2009

azzkikr said: ↑

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MutantNinjaSkrtel · Mar 1, 2009

azzkikr said: ↑

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ROFL Ronan!

Liverpool-law · Mar 3, 2009

Brilliant idea, Dub13 for taoiseach.

Mrs L-L was off sick today and when I came home my dinner was cooked and she had ironed shirts for me for the rest of the week, it certainly got me smiling in the recession!

LOU2 · Mar 4, 2009

so not giving up my job just got permancy so im stayin put good ole HSE

Jethro Tull · Mar 5, 2009

Im still flying high thank God but i believe ryanair axing jobs in Dublin.Just grateful no such talk with BMI.

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