Feminism is a Fraud, by Glenn Burger
Stephen Morgan
Feminism is a Fraud
by Glenn Burger
For the past 30 years, the mainstay of feminism has been gender bias
in employment. According to the feminists, women have been denied
employment opportunities, pushed aside and just generally treated
badly in the job market because of their sex. Indeed, during the
most influential years of feminism in North America in the 1960's,
the feminists claimed that women were "the last hired and the first
fired". Women were victims of gender bias. I can cast serious doubts
on this notion of gender bias victimizing women with two simple,
straight forward facts and a conclusion.
Fact: In 1939, 65% of the banking staff in Canada was male. True. Two
out of three employees were male. And what was 1939? 1939 was the
start of the Second World War.
Fact: By 1943 (the worst of the war years) the banks in Canada had
closed almost half of the banking system due to "lack of staff".
The banking text book which inadvertently made me aware of this
banking system closure didn't indicate what caused this lack of
staff but - considering the dates involved - it is obvious what it
was: military requirement for the war effort.
Conclusion: At the end of the war, to prevent any possible future
loss of staff expertise to the military in the event of yet another
war (which seemed highly possible at that time) the banks and many
large business offices, oil company head offices and other labor
intensive white collar corporations in both Canada and the United
States implemented hiring policies which demanded the exclusive
hiring of women for the skills acquiring, upwardly mobile white
collar clerical and supervisory sectors of their organizations
because women were not vulnerable to military requirements in the
event of war. At the present time, Canadian banking white collar
staff is 95% female and this high percentage of female employees is
true of most other business offices in both Canada and the US.
It is for this reason that bank and business office staff in North
America is almost exclusively female. It has nothing to do with poor
wages, or superior female abilities, or female competitiveness or
"discrimination" against women forcing them into so called pink
collar ghettos. Enter banks or business offices in Asia, Europe or
Australia and you will find substantial numbers of male employees.
Not so in North America, because in North America many employers
hire only women because they aren't wanted for possible military
duty. So, how's that for "gender bias"? Note: It should be pointed
out that men created these hiring policies, not women.
The policies, unquestionably, came from the most senior executive
level and, as the feminists have been pointing out for years, that
level is almost exclusively male.
(The thought also occurs that both American and Canadian
multinational corporations could export their anti-male hiring
policies to other countries in Europe, Asia and Australia without
those countries realizing what was happening.
Any given office staffed exclusively by women would look as though
the all female staff had occurred by chance when, in fact, it was
caused by stupid anti-male hiring policies imported from North
America, but I digress).
(It should be pointed out that, until 1997, it was exceedingly rare
to enter any bank in Canada and see any males below the level of
management. I have been an activist against this for years, sending
copies of my activism to the most senior politicians in both Canada
and the US via the regular mail and getting some interesting
responses from very senior men.
Suddenly, there are now a LOT of men working in Canada's banks. I
attribute this change to my letters getting to the right people and
having an impact on the hiring policies. Had the letters not been
sent, I sincerely believe that the hiring policies which excluded
men would have never changed. Maybe a similar change has occurred in
The States). Also, if you find this view of gender bias in
employment to be of interest, I encourage you to copy this single
page and "pass it around", especially to feminists. Feminists can be
remarkably verbal about their views and you might be surprised how
fast they go silent when they read this view. Try it. You'll see.
Contact me at glennburg...@yahoo.com, or visit me at
www.zohrab.org. Click on Issues, then Employment, then
Conscription and Employment. Your comments are very welcome.
Glenn Burger
--
"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts
to the rich - both come to poverty."
-- Proverbs 22:16
Tom Smith
ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/feminismfraud.htm
That Glenn Burger is a great theorist of the men's movement. Long live
Glenn!!
Tom
Stephen Morgan
> In article <slrn9hrepk....@wildcard.ntl.com>,
> ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> > http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/feminismfraud.htm
>
> That Glenn Burger is a great theorist of the men's movement. Long live
> Glenn!!
Yes. His theory is good, but the lack of Illuminists is disturbing.
Tom Smith
ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> In alt.feminism, Tom Smith (QIM) wrote:
> > In article <slrn9hrepk....@wildcard.ntl.com>,
> > ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> > > http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/feminismfraud.htm
> >
> > That Glenn Burger is a great theorist of the men's movement. Long live
> > Glenn!!
>
> Yes. His theory is good, but the lack of Illuminists is disturbing.
If you mean by that he's a one trick pony, then I agree.
Stephen Morgan
> In article <slrn9hsvkd....@wildcard.ntl.com>,
> ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> > In alt.feminism, Tom Smith (QIM) wrote:
> > > In article <slrn9hrepk....@wildcard.ntl.com>,
> > > ncav...@crosswinds.net says...
> > > > http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/feminismfraud.htm
> > >
> > > That Glenn Burger is a great theorist of the men's movement. Long live
> > > Glenn!!
> >
> > Yes. His theory is good, but the lack of Illuminists is disturbing.
>
> If you mean by that he's a one trick pony, then I agree.
He is, but that wouldn't be so bad if he recognised the Illuminist
threat.