LilanKahn at 2024-03-08 14:11:26+00:00 ID: ktx1iyj

The example I mentioned for Croatia (and my wife), women often get laid off when pregnant, unless they have a permanent contract.

Wont happen in Denmark, as the wrongful termination payment would come faster than you can scream lawyer.

proevligeathoerher at 2024-03-08 14:14:34+00:00 ID: ktx205h

I think in Denmark we have a lot of structual protection like laws, unions and so on, which protects us from a large amount of the sexism women in other places expierence. I'm currently pregnant, and while my job is in the private sector and isn't unionised, I do not fear being fired because of being pregnant, because that simply isn't allowed and my company would be in huge trouble if they did.

Instead, in my experience, the sexism I've personally expierenced is more on the individual level. Meaning people (professors at university, family members, strangers, partners, and so on) who treated me differently because of my gender. Be it with a comment (like my university professor commenting on how he was surpised a 'girl knew so much about politics' after I'd written a paper on Brexit), or extended family members expecting me to help out with cleaning, cooking and childrearing at family gatherings while my male cousin weren't expected to do the same. Or how I, in my old job (I worked with marketing for pilots in aviation), would constantly have to deal with comments about my apperance, gender, and would constantly be delegated the 'female tasks' despite them not being part of my job despription.

Sexism comes in a lot of forms, and in my expierence it's usually on a individual basis, but I've friends who move in a different part of society than I do, who both expierence more severe sexism and more structual sexism than I do.