Posted on 08/17/2021 2:03:33 PM PDT by simpson96
Two white male creative directors at a top London advertising agency have won a sex discrimination claim after a female director vowed to “obliterate” its Mad Men reputation of being full of straight, white men.
Chas Bayfield and Dave Jenner, both in their 50s and renowned creative directors at the J Walter Thompson (JWT) agency, were among five men axed from the agency, which is part of WPP, because bosses “urgently” wanted to address its poor gender pay gap, a tribunal court ruled.
The men were dismissed in November 2018, shortly after the firm revealed a median gender pay gap of 44.7%. The London Central tribunal heard that the pay gap report had sent “shock waves” through the firm as it highlighted a serious lack of female representation.
The agency’s then executive creative director, Lucas Peon, described the pay gap statistics as “really, really horrible”. “In the World Cup of sucking at pay gap numbers, we made the final,” he said at the time.
A female creative director, Jo Wallace, was appointed to help the company shake off its reputation as a “Knightsbridge boys’ club” where “white, straight men create above-the-line advertising”.
She organised a diversity conference entitled Crisis: The Mother of All Change. At the conference Wallace, who introduced herself as a gay woman, said: “One thing we all agree on is that the reputation JWT once earned – as being full of white, British, privileged [men] – has to be obliterated.”
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Hey women, perhaps you need to write better ad copy?
Those 5 white guys should start their own agency and “obliterate” JWT.....
So they found a way to cut their payroll by over 40%?
Yep, fix that problem by doing the same thing in reverse! WOW, who could not see that coming? Just BRILLIANT!
Were there any Daleks in her powerpoint presentation? (Obliterate ...)
Hope they get more than a Shilling & sixpence in their judgement!
They are probably working on it. Still, it's a great idea to win some millions from the crazy company that illegally sacked them out of pure malice.
I noticed they didn't say female talent, they said female representation.
Lol...
Men, see what happens when you fight back, rather than just grab your pussy whipped ankles and take it?
So the solution to the gender wage gap was to fire all the top talent. Even if they got away with it, this would not have benefited anyone on the low side of the wage gap. Now the company will pay restitution, as they should, for such a nitwit move. No closed wage gap. Settlement.
Right. Leftists just love checking boxes, no matter what the consequences might be. Check, women more represented at this agency. Mission accomplished.
J. Walter Thompson has been around for a long time. Back in 1973 during the Watergate hearings it seemed like anyone of importance in the Nixon White House had an association with J. Walter Thompson.
Bunch back twice as hard.
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