Mr Williams, from Q102, usually such a nice fellow, peppering me with a series of truly hideous questions on the issues surrounding equality in the workplace:RSS readers may need to click through to the post
Isn't the world in which we live such a peachy place? As a father of daughters, this kind of discussion makes me very sad. As an observer of humankind, it just makes me weary. By any rational measure, women are better than men at everything, with the possible exceptions of lifting heavy objects and chucking spears at woolly mammoths. Good luck finding lucrative employment in the developed world that is based on either of those skills ... And yet there seems to be such a shortage of Double X chromosones in the upper echelons of the working world. How can this be?
It has long been my opinion that one does not discriminate against something that represents no threat to one's wellbeing ...
In the meantime ... deep sigh.
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It has long been my opinion that one does not discriminate against something that represents no threat to one's wellbeing ...
Part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. - Lestor Maddox
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. - William J. BrennanIs this discrimination against 50% of the population happening on a daily basis? I think we can all agree that it is. Is that discrimination happening on the basis of feelings of strength and security? I do not think so. Is the trend on all of this ugliness starting to shift? Yes it is, but waaaaaay too slowly. When women collectively realise just how much power and control they truly exert in this world, we will see a dramatic upswing in that trend. At that juncture, it will be so nice to be able to go into a boardroom and not have to discuss rugby, soccer, golf and motorsports.
In the meantime ... deep sigh.
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2 comments:
When someone both you and I know well was going for her current position, she was informed by the recruitment agency that the hiring company did not want a woman, as the position was vacant because the previous employee had left because she had had a baby. In fact, she was a replacement for the even more previous employee, who had taken maternity leave, then decided not to come back.
Despite the "no women" instruction from the company, the agency put our mutual friend forward because of her strong CV and performance at the initial interviews. The company agreed to interview our mutual friend.
Being Spain, where despite many impressive advances in the last twenty years, they can still be somewhat chauvanistic, our friend guessed the company would want to know if she was planning to have children, so she asked me how she should respond.
I told her to say that she can't. Which may well be the truth, for I don't know whether she can or not.
I also suggested that she let a single tear drop fall from her eye at the same time.
Anyway, they did indeed ask the question and she did indeed tell them she can't. She got the job (not without help from your Magnificent self, as usual).
I don't know about the single tear drop.
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