Posted on 08/30/2019 10:20:14 AM PDT by RightGeek
It looks like Mike Pence is quite the trendsetter. The US vice-president famously refuses to have dinner alone with any woman who isn’t his wife – and now working men across corporate America appear to be following his lead.
A new study, due to be published in the journal Organizational Dynamics, has found that, following the #MeToo movement, men are significantly more reluctant to interact with their female colleagues. A few highlights from the research include:
• 27% of men avoid one-on-one meetings with female co-workers. Yep, that’s right, almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman.
• 21% of men said they would be reluctant to hire women for a job that would require close interaction (such as business travel).
• 19% of men would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman.
The data above was collected in early 2019 from workers across a wide range of industries. Researchers had asked the same questions (albeit to different people and with more of a focus on future expectations) in early 2018, just as #MeToo was in full swing, and depressingly, things appear to have got worse. In 2018, for example, 15% of men said they would be more reluctant to hire women for jobs that require close interpersonal interactions with women, compared to 21% in 2019.
It’s not just men who are afraid of women, by the way. Women also appear to be increasingly wary of hiring women. The 2018 survey results found that more than 10% of men and women said they expected to be less willing than before to hire attractive women. (Note: the 2019 results for women are not yet public.) ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Deal with it.
I’m terrified of certain women in the workplace. So yeah, it’s a good policy to either avoid them altogether, or to make sure that every interaction with them is strictly business, no joking around, in very public places with plenty of people nearby. It’s come to that.
I have been in a social setting, not with my wife, with another woman 3 times in my 39 yrs of marriage, My wife said is was OK, and the woman’s husband is a close friend,
But it felt darned odd
The whole “women’s suffrage” movement demanded “equality.” Notice they’ve moved away from “equality” and are now using “diversity” and “inclusion.” Equality means all the good with all the bad. Oh, but they don’t want the bad. They want their cake.
Now, women are being ostracized even more, because men don’t want to be seen alone with a woman and get “Kavanaugh’d.”
I know some women that have advanced their careers, solely on the basis of this "Me Too" crap.
Pure lies...but if one even hints at not believing every word, one is literally crucified.
Oh well. I’ll make my own damn sammich.
“...19% of men would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman....”
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As the old song goes “If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, get an ugly woman to be your employee.” Maybe I’m not remembering it exactly correctly. ;-)
As I counseled some young relatives, as the transgender and “chosen-pronoun” nonsense has leaked into their school.
I told them - AVOID all contact with these people. Of course we would normally support basic Christian respect and understanding for a troubled individual, but now that its been made a political issue and certain people put themselves forward as tools for this purpose, simply avoid all interaction where you might be subjected to PC “gotcha” and judgement.
Pfffffttttttt! We got schooled in that 20 years ago at my place of employment. Nuthin’ new in some corporations. Glad I’m retired so I don’t get fired.
I was a manager in an industry where the workforce was 85% female. I got dragged to the quarterly HR head-thrashings about sexual harassment.
Don’t make any comments about how they look.
Don’t crack any jokes.
Don’t make eye contact for more than four seconds.
Life is too short to try and live that way.
Who remembers this scene in "Fatal Attraction"? Basically the start of the Michael Douglas character's troubles.
The author expected that what would happen?
• 27% of men avoid one-on-one meetings with female co-workers. Yep, that’s right, almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman.
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Wow. Talk about jumping to a stupid conclusion. Maybe the co-worker is a b-word. A trouble maker. Lazy or incompetent. Has bad body odor. Whatever.
“Terrified”?
How is this punishment? This protects women.
The women’s libbers are whining because the smart men refuse to mentor them....
Avoid everyone at work, especially women. Talk about work and the weather, then go home.
It never enters her head that the men are being unfairly punished. It is all about her.
I do my best to ignore as much as possible all women in the workplace except the little old ladies
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