Gender Pay Gap comes to arr/Scotland as women demand equal pay for different jobs. Bickering ensues when some incels won't let women be equal

You're comparing an engineer, someone who designs bridges, to someone who looks after children. Of course the engineer will be paid more.

See, this is your misogyny. No they don't look after children. The role scope is huge. You've zero clue, have you? Glad the courts know more than you.

This is not misogyny; there's nothing stopping a woman from being a civil engineer. Civil engineers are paid more because they're worth more.

Misogynist.

Ok …

So you think a job that involves literally keeping the more vulnerable in society alive and cared for, whilst implementing not one but two national curriculums (one more than a teacher, and the EXACT SAME curriculum and level as P1/P2 teachers), a job that's externally regulated by both Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland, where the employees must be independently registered with an external regulator and maintain high levels of Continuous Professional Learning (35 hours per year - a whole extra week of unpaid work) to maintain membership and continue in the job, a role that comes with immense responsibility and accountability - from health professionals to social workers, a job that can literally be the difference between an abused child being saved or left to die - you think that's not worth as much as a civil engineer?

You've really made what you think of those who educate and care for some of the most vulnerable members of society clear. Pathetic.

I'm really happy to hear someone defending nursery staff, I've been doing it for years and it a hard job, in every aspect. It's long hours, as most places will ask you to work 10 hour shifts, emotionally draining, mentally taxing, physically demanding and you are responsible for the lives of the children under your care. All of them. A mistake can damage the life chances of a young person, not paying attention can allow abuse to propagate, a frickup can kill an infant. You have to be 'on' the whole time you're at work. You have to have several different skill sets that you can switch between regularly. And the pay is dogshit. Most of the time you'roud be financially better of stacking shelves. I stepped away from permanent placement to work for an agency for a higher rate of pay and vastly reduced responsibilities. A big issue is the nature of British capitalism. We let the market fill the gap, and the gap has been getting wider each successive year of Conservative reign, so most childcare is private industry. Anyway, I am male, and I love seeing this argument taking a breath of fresh air. A society can be measured by how it treats its most vulnerable, doubly so when those vulnerable are the future of that society!

Please don't be disheartened by the responses here. The job of those who work with children is far more important than this incel-like mindset on Reddit would suggest.

Educating and caring for literally the future of our species is one of the most valuable jobs of the planet!

Undoubtedly. The quality of the future of the human race is assured by the treatment of our young. I wish a bright future for all. Even some of the knuckle dragging pricks on this sub.

Total nurse death