Is this a total coincidence? I am not suggesting the groups organising the recalls are targetting women and I don't want to defend any BC Liberal MLAs, but why is this happening?

Is it easier to collect signatures against women politicians because of a negative perception of women not being "cut out for the job"?

[ 11 February 2003: Message edited by: kropotkin1951 ]

I don't care what gender the Liberals are they are a disaster and should all be recalled.

In statistics a sample of 6 of 77 would not be considered indicitive of anything.

And if these Liberal women are in the process of attacking working women in health care and child care why should their gender matter. This government is insisting that the HEU workers I think they are about 80% female) go from a living wage to a poverty level wage and your concerned about anti-female bias in recalling them?

They also have cut funding to some inclusive daycare programs run by developmental disability advocacy groups because they had the audacity to pay women more than $12 an hour.

This is a bit troubling. I think that the NDP and Greens, in order to combat further gender imparity in the legislature, should nominate many if not all women in these ridings. I'm sure there are superb candidates out there.

[ 11 February 2003: Message edited by: meades ]

Sorry Sistersanta it was not personally directed at you but personally directed at the nasty Liberals.

This government has stripped away human rights legislation and attacked women directly in a host of other areas so again.

What people on this forum should know is that one of the main ingredients in their wages becoming so high is that a couple of rounds ago they bargained primarily for equal work for equal pay and not across the board increases. This strategy led to all those womens jobs getting paid at the an appropriate rate compared to male jobs in the hospitals. Every feminist knows that womens work is undervalued and now when a group makes significant advances on behalf of its women workers they are vilified as the reason our health care system is unsustainable.

My question given this thread is why elect women who will attack other women for having the audacity to demand equal pay for equal work.