Discrimination against 3.8 million women

Tasmania? Not even part of the mainland. They call the rest of us 'the other island'. Things are different down there.At least when I lived there they were- very different.

nanna8

Tasmania? Not even part of the mainland. They call the rest of us 'the other island'. Things are different down there.At least when I lived there they were- very different.

I have a former work colleague who had lived there for many years and used to say the same. However as it was just hearsay I didn't want to mention that here. Dr Scut's qualifications I'm sure are genuine but a small fish in a big pond who now in her 70's is a councillor in a small Cambs Ward and trying to add something else to her CV is how it looks, but I wish she would qualify such titles as "Anti Discrimination Commissioner", it's rather disingenuous, I feel.

nanna8 and notgran … so what (apart from being rather discriminatory towards the people of Tasmania)! Dr Scutt, and other representatives of CEDAW, are speaking out against the unfair discrimination of millions of women. Good for them!

Those of us born from 1951 to early 1953 had to work a couple of years longer and only get the old lower state pension. They should have a staged increase for us, just as there was a gradual increase in retirement age.

Elusivebutterfly

Those of us born from 1951 to early 1953 had to work a couple of years longer and only get the old lower state pension. They should have a staged increase for us, just as there was a gradual increase in retirement age.

Yes, that is an anomaly which should be corrected.

Now I said it was ‘different ‘, not ‘bad’ I quite liked living there but I was also quite glad to get back to that big island at the top! We were living in a wild bit so if you lived down in Hobart it was probably more like how most of us live.

nanna8

Now I said it was ‘different ‘, not ‘bad’ I quite liked living there but I was also quite glad to get back to that big island at the top! We were living in a wild bit so if you lived down in Hobart it was probably more like how most of us live.

We really enjoyed a holiday there and visited friends of friends down in the very wild part - an island off an island!

Hobart was civilisation 🙂