Comments on: Families no better off 20 years on http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/ - promoting a clearer understanding of men's experience - Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:36:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Sparkz http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-108607 Sparkz Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:05:33 +0000 http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-108607 Talk about "keep it in the family". And just what does a "university sociologist" contribute to New Zealand's GDP? Talk about “keep it in the family”.

And just what does a “university sociologist” contribute to New Zealand’s GDP?

]]> By: Stephen http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-107756 Stephen Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:02:21 +0000 http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-107756 Excuse me. I should have said UP where I wrote DOWN in the above posting. Excuse me.
I should have said UP where I wrote DOWN in the above posting.

]]> By: Stephen http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-107754 Stephen Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:00:13 +0000 http://menz.org.nz/2006/families-no-better-off-20-years-on/#comment-107754 Julie, Why Peter Davis should be stunned is anyones guess. After all it stands to reason that if huge numbers of women enter the workforce it will drive down wages as employers have a larger pool of workers to choose from. It's simple supply economics 101 that when a commodity is in short supply, demand is high and the price of that commodity goes DOWN. Conversely if a commodity (including human labour as with a huge movement of women into the paid workforce) is very abundant or oversupplied it's value goes down. Basic. Increasingly it seems we've got competitors rather than lovers. Divorces rather than marriages. Isolated individuals rather than communities and Big nanny government and big business rather than liberty. We live in strange times. Julie,
Why Peter Davis should be stunned is anyones guess. After all it stands to reason that if huge numbers of women enter the workforce it will drive down wages as employers have a larger pool of workers to choose from. It’s simple supply economics 101 that when a commodity is in short supply, demand is high and the price of that commodity goes DOWN. Conversely if a commodity (including human labour as with a huge movement of women into the paid workforce) is very abundant or oversupplied it’s value goes down.
Basic.
Increasingly it seems we’ve got competitors rather than lovers. Divorces rather than marriages. Isolated individuals rather than communities and Big nanny government and big business rather than liberty.
We live in strange times.

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