Unless the Welsh Government acts Covid-19 could erase the progress we've made for women

A lot of people are using this panic-demic to further their political agendas. feminists, unfortunately, are no exception. The fact is that feminism represents a shrinking minority of women in Britain, (just 9% of British women actively describe themselves as a feminist). Perhaps they should cease from belittling women who want to raise healthy families instead of competing in corporate board rooms. Yet what the feminist's lobby holds in common with other supporters of lockdown is their enthusiasm for authoritarianism - the right of a powerful minority to suppress and control the majority. Alarm bells should be ringing.

"The gender pay gap stands at 14.5% in Wales." Why is that?

specifically where is this 14.5% pay gap? I have worked in over seventeen different jobs and never once been payed any different (more) than the women I worked with apart from a couple of times where as an agency worker my female counterparts on full contracts were earning £120 more per week which is an agency issue not a male /female pay issue. Where exactly does this pay gap exist. Examples please or I cannot accept this statistic.

Every study on the gender pay gap based on evidence not feelings refutes it in the true sense of refute as in to demonstrate not to be true. Women earn less than men on average because they have less experience and work less hours due to lifestyle choices mostly to do with children and family. Eg if a Health Trust advertises for a heart surgeon with 6 years experience most male candidates will be younger because they have not had time off for family reasons. Until you alter basic biology (the feminist and transgender lobby's next step) that will not change. Similarly sectors offering part time and flexible working are popular with women for the same reasons. The fact that police now deal promptly and much more effectively with domestic violence is a mark of progress not shame. If a 100 years ago a woman complained of being beaten or abused she probably would have been told it was her fault! This article is poorly researched lazy feminist political waffle.

To me it's all the same. If a person is competent, that's it. The more highly educated Welsh women, the better.

I enquired last week about the cleaners on the Assembly estate getting a pay rise to reflect the dangers they have faced and are facing with Covid-19. Most are female and are not white. During my time in Plaid Cymru, I heard plenty of talk about the lack of female directors on company boards, but nothing about low paid female cleaners. Also, when I stood up for the mother & child being evicted in Pentrebane some years ago, not a single Plaid AM assisted. Instead, they supported those doing the evicting. None of them enquired how they could support the family. At the time, they were too busy suspending me, just days after the Deryn Ofcom scandal breaking, as a result of the complaint I made. Women fighting for equality like Sharon Anyos, who I interviewed on Thursday are inspiring. Career feminists, like the crop in the Senedd are quite the opposite.

Men are also key workers, postmen, lorry drivers, carers, dutbinmen. Plaid getting it wrong again. Bang bang,! Not much of that foot left.

"when people start returning to work, there won’t be enough childcare provision and undoubtedly, it’ll be the women who will stay at home." Why is this bad? It is what children want. (Though an inconvenient truth, suppressed or evaded). And, having tried it, we will find out that mothers want it (Though they will remain afraid to say so). The feminist model of marrying the state and excluding the father and exalting single motherhood is fine. As an opinion. As an assertion. But it is not necessarily correct. We have a generation of experience of this assertion now. Its not stacking up. As Senator Elizabeth Warren noted in her book, society needs to address this social aberration.

These comments, many from men makes rather depressing reading. I thought we'd come a little further than this in Wales!. I agree that in the past women's groups have been too middle class and lower paid women had been ignored but there's a greater sense of solidarity now and Covid 19 will have highlighted the valuable work that the mainly female health and social care workers undertake, often on appalling contracts with different employers. Let's work together for a better more equal Wales and stop denying that inequality exists.