on average [cis] men are paid $30,000 per year more than the rest of us. This is because our form of social organisation is patriarchy, a system where men make and enforce norms and rules in their own interests.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/04/australia-gender-pay-gap-government-report
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/04/australia-gender-pay-gap-government-report
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Then I beat one of them at pool. It was a sad, watershed moment for me.
I saw a man I'd looked up to have a full on tantrum in a pub.
He still owes me $20 for sinking the black.
"Yes, Marco. I won."
Marco made some noises. The words "chalk" and "mis-cue" were stuttered out in a way that suggested that I was being unreasonable.
"So which of us won, then?"
That's when my teacher of 3 years stormed out of the pub.
There's a massive undercurrent of control, specifically driven by an agenda to keep women poor so that we can be exploited as domestic serfs, and coerced into sex with undesirable men for our own survival.
Though I also deduced that, being women, there was always someone(Boyfriends/Husbands)that wanted them t be somewhere else, esp. wkends.
Others just went & did something else.
When 12hr shifts came on wkends were seriously affected
Possibly, & my experience was, it could also be distorted by people like myself whom worked 30yrs of shift work in the BlueChip company Computer Centres where we got shift loading and/or at different times just good pay for bloody hard technical work. Aged 24 there were some PT1