Miss Jowell

**Rebadow** · 27th-February-2006

Quote from Toby Helm @ [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/27/nequal27.xml

Telegraph[/url]]Tories target the female vote with equal pay vow

David Cameron will step up his efforts to win over female voters today by delivering an unequivocal commitment to back equal pay for women in the workplace.

The pledge - to be delivered by George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor - is part of an attempt to rid the Tories of their image as an old-fashioned party that believes mothers should remain at home.

The policy shift will coincide with a major new report today by the Women at Work Commission which will highlight big disparities between male and female earnings and make 40 recommendations to ministers to end pay discrimination.

Mr Osborne will commit the Conservatives to policies that support working mothers both by widening the range of child care choices on offer and combating traditional views of a mother's role.

Mothers who work should not be made to feel guilty, Mr Osborne will say. "Nor should mothers who stay at home. Let us stop trying to tell families how to live their lives."

He will add: "The message from my party should be firm. Unequal pay based on sexual discrimination is completely and totally unacceptable in this day and age."

Set up 18 months ago Lady Prosser's Commission will reveal that more women than men work in the lowest paid jobs, the so-called "five Cs" - catering, cleaning, cashiering, clerical work and caring.

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**CitizenSmith** · 27th-February-2006

Cosily refered to by BBC newscasters as "The Indy" (no doubt staff at the Independent refer to the BBC as "The Beeb") the Independent also carries this story this morning.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...icle348031.ece

The 7th paragraph down in that article states;

Its (the Work and Women Comission's Report)...40 recommendations include plans to encourage more women into male-dominated industries such as computers and construction and away from the "five Cs" - catering, cleaning, cashiering, clerical work and caring.

Translation: It includes plans to encourage more men into catering, cleaning, cashiering, clerical work and caring. Unless of course they're expecting robots to be created to fill these positions in future. Oh yes and while we're at it, let's 'encourage' men to go part-time and stay home and look after the house.

If this is indeed all about equality of opportunity, then I would expect to see all-women dustbin crews and street sweepers combing the streets on a regular basis. I'd imagine career women might just blanch at the opportunity to be able do that kind of job, regardless of what it pays.

**Rebadow** · 28th-February-2006

Quote from [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/28/njowell328.xml

Telegraph[/url]]This investigation can erupt at any moment, as Miss Jowell found when she appeared earlier yesterday morning on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. After an innocuous discussion of the gender pay gap, Jenni Murray, the presenter, went in for the kill: "Just briefly before we go, I know these are slightly troubled times for you, but I have to ask you, as the feminist you are, are we to believe you signed for a mortgage loan on your house, for your husband, without knowing exactly how it was going to be paid back?"

This brutal question produced the admission from Miss Jowell that "my husband pays the mortgage". Her feminist credentials lay in shreds. She had been made to sound like a kept woman.
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To pose the question is to answer it. This cannot be what happened. But the ugly face of the patriarchy which runs New Labour, and which gets people like Miss Jowell into trouble, has still been exposed.

At work, Mr Blair tells Miss Jowell what to do, while at home, Mr Mills pays the mortgage, and her fate now lies in the hands of these two men.

**jbgood2** · 2nd-March-2006

Wow, nice piece from the Telegraph exposing the hypocracy of feminists who are prepared to fall back on their little woman status when ever it suits them. In this case Jowell claims to be uninvolved with her husbands financial arrangements for a mortgage despite having signed the form and claiming to be an independant feminist she is now prepared to drop feminism like a stone and hide behind her hubby. lol. This goes to show that feminism is a charade that can be stopped or dropped whenever it suits the ladies. Can patriarchy be switched off? No, it has to be able to cope with all eventualities. Feminism is a device used by unscrupulous and dysfunctional people to bring them special status that allows them to recieve benefits to which they wouldn't normally be entitled and should be exposed for the con it is.

**Peter C.** · 4th-March-2006

Aaaahhhh!!!!

Just read on teletext this morning that their marriage is over, a split caused by 'the strain' of the whole affair.

Oh Tessa dear - you are a prudent strategist are you not !

Shame about your integrity - and indeed your very humanity. Or blatant lack of it.