Originally Posted by
sveg
I agree this is very bad personnel planning by the company operating the security check points in CPH, but this must be an exception and not the rule.
Going OT: With regards to women in Denmark and their role in the workforce, the employment rate is the second highest in Europe (2007: 73.2%, USA: 65.9%), just to get a fact based view
. Source:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm...pcode=tsiem010
More OT facts
from wikigender.org, citing DK nat'l statistics.
Danish women have one of the highest employment rates among women in Europe and OECD countries at 70.8% per cent.However, the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsforeningen i Danmark, LO) and the Danish Employers’ Confederation (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA) published a joint analysis of male and female wages, which found that men's wages are on average 14%-15% higher than those of women. Among white-collar workers, men's wages are on average 19%-20% higher than those of women. The study finds that the most important cause of the wage gaps observed between men and women is thegender-segregated labour market.
Why does the Danish government permit airport security jobs, which they must regulate very carefully and which require relatively little physical strength or specialized training, to be largely closed to women?
My observation in US and Sweden, which is where my main travel are, is that it's about half females in the US (where they have ridiculous number of security) and a little less than half female in Sweden. Once at slow time, there were only two males at FT at ARN, but I guess they have more workers at the other side.