International Melbourne city council bans men from street sweeper job in name of diversity

[HockeyBjj]

Is no one going to make a women forced to work cleaning jobs joke?

Seems sexist that that's considered a women's job.

Cannot wait for men banned from working at subway in the name of diversity.

 

[Bald1]

Let's engineer desired outcomes at the expense of equal opportunities. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Gunny]

….

 

[SammyPops]

Well, chicks are better at sweepin than men so .....

 

[Seano]

Take that, sexist men!

 

[Lord Coke]

So I googled lack of women in logging as joke but yes there are really people that think that the patriarchy is keeping women out of logging

https://fsc.org/en/newsfeed/seeing-2020-why-the-forestry-industry-must-strive-for-gender-equality

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

Melbourne is the woke capital of Australia so this doesn't surprise me.

It's worse than Sydney?

 

[Ruprecht]

Hmm. That's an interesting application of the special measures exemptions.
At least here in SA it's usually for things like concession fares for seniors or female counsellors for women's shelters.
Don't think we have a direct equivalent.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

How surprising, government officials being paid to interfere in shit that doesn't need it

 

[Cid]

You guys should see their performance reviews...

 

[Deleted member 539235]

get them sheilas on the bins next, plumbing maybe n'all...atrocious lack of diversity in the field of sifting through human shit

 

[Natural Order]

I'm gonna guess no. I'm also gonna guess that this ridiculousness was brought on by some study that found out that street sweepers were made of an extreme disproportionate amount of men, and they think that by banning them from the job, it will magically make more women apply for it.

CBC ran a 15 minute piece a few months back about how men make more than double what women in the "trades" do. When it's broken down, something like 85% of women in trade school are registered in programs like hairdressing, baking, decorator, which engage industries that don't generate massive amounts of money and of course wages are relative to that. They then use those stats as a comparison to men in the typical trades that are moving large amounts of money.

So blatant, so embarrassing. So CBC.

 

[gondo]

If there are no female applicants for the foreseeable future and the males all retire/quit does that job just disappear?

 

[bobgeese]

I'm sure the ladies are lining up now...

 

[TUFNewb]

What would Nelly think? He made a song about that profession if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

This is happening a lot in my industry especially with the larger companies like BHP. 1 of the 1st things they ask on your application is your sex and cultural back ground.

For instance I applied for a job in a water treatment that I built, Commissioned and performance tested from start to finish only to be knocked back multiple times, in place of a dental nurse a cleaner and a school drop out with no industry experience.

 

[PrinceOfPain]

Seems a bad idea to cut men off from a whole field of entry-level, low-skill jobs. That already tends to be an area where men struggle compared to women, who often have an upper hand in becoming secretaries, au pairs, strippers, and teachers.
At least Australia's not big on helping refugees. Imagine Melbourne imported a bunch of low-skilled workers, only to tell them they couldn't work.