Posted on 04/29/2015 5:01:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
The proposed $60bn flotation of Glencore was plunged into a sexism row after the chairman of the world's largest commodities trader claimed young women were a risk to hire because they get married and become pregnant.
Vince Cable criticised the remarks by septuagenarian Simon Murray as "unbelievably primitive" and indicated that they could be used to justify any affirmative action in British boardrooms. Murray, who is based in Hong Kong and was only appointed as chairman this month to facilitate the flotation, was forced into a humbling apology after saying that there should not be quotas for women in boardrooms.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Simon Murray is right: women do prefer children to the boardroom
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100084919/simon-murray-is-right-woman-do-prefer-children-to-the-boardroom/
Glencore chairman slammed for ‘primitive’ views on hiring women
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/bulletin/mtdailybulletin/article/1067047/glencore-chairman-slammed-primitive-views-hiring-women/
I was in law school in the late 70s and I heard this then, that it was a waste to give women a slot in law school because they would not stay in the profession. I was duly outraged and got my law degree. Of my class however, when I looked up 20-30 years later, I was the only woman who was still practicing law. By then, I had three children and not a day went by that I didn’t wish I was home with them but I kept working, not at the 80 hour a week job that was supposedly what we were supposed to be doing but mostly as my own boss which worked for me.
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If you don’t give them jobs, how can management hit on them? And why is corporate life so much more dedicated than village life?
Women can do most joins, but the hirer has to be aware of the odds of family interrupting or terminating their careers.
On the average, he’s right.
“Joins” was supposed to be jobs. Damn “smart” keyboard!
I, too, would have been appalled had I heard this when beginning my career. I liked working right up to the moment my son was born. I remember holding him and crying a week before my maternity leave was over.
Fast forward 15 years; I’m a homeschooling mother of six with no plans to ever return to my field. I’m happy and content just keeping house and raising my children. I never would have believed that my heart would be satisfied at home yet here I am.
He is right.
God bless you. Far too many children are being raised by strangers while their mothers buy that lie that their other careers are more important.
From “that’s sexist” and “that’s not fair” to
submitting to your God-given “wiring”.
"MANY women like bringing up children more than being in the boardroom."
See how easy that is?
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