A Message to Queensland University of Technology and the MATE Program
To be fair, the only reason I showed interest in the program was to see what kind of ideologies are being spread around in our schools and universities. As feedback, there are some issues I had concerning aspects of the workshop. It minimised male problems walking while through a dark alley by very quickly skipping over male reactions to the situation, while focusing on accumulating more detail on the female side to make a gendered point. It didn’t acknowledge 2/3 murder victims are men, male suicide epidemic, perceived biases in the family court skewed in the favour of women, etc. It has not been possible to develop reliable estimates of the total percentage of the raw gender wage gap. When given more choice, women tend to choose less dangerous jobs than men, 3 in 4 part time jobs are held by women, and the necessity for breastfeeding and close mother/child relationship results in more women choosing to leave full time careers. By attempting to ‘fix’ equality of outcome, there needs t