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Men now avoid women at work – another sign we're being punished for #MeToo
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 8/29/2019 | Arwa Mahdawi

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genderwars; goodnews; metoo; mikepence; winning; workplace
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To: RightGeek

Only dated a co-worker once.
Best woman I have ever known.


121 posted on 08/30/2019 12:09:48 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: punknpuss

I suspect you also didn’t dress provocatively to send mixed messages to your coworkers.


122 posted on 08/30/2019 12:21:24 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: TomServo

#MeToo was and still is a complete fraud. Liberalism destroyed women. They even destroy hashtags.


123 posted on 08/30/2019 12:21:25 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: RightGeek; cgbg; atc23; Mr Ramsbotham; polymuser

There is one group of women that suffers, and people don’t seem to be concerned about. A lot of women want to get laid and now the guy should assume he is going to get in trouble. At any moment a women he has had an affair with can flip out and claim sexual harassment or rape.


124 posted on 08/30/2019 12:22:33 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: House Atreides

Was it...if you want a be happy for the rest of your life..remember a beauty brings lots of strife?


125 posted on 08/30/2019 12:28:50 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: RightGeek

22 years ago I found that amateur bicycle racing was the workplace. I was just a midpack at best masters category (40+) racer. I rode some miles with an official during post season 1997. These were social rides, lunch at the end that’s it. She filed a sexual harassment complaint against me at USA Cycling, called my real employer at my real job, and spread the rumors that I was a white supremacist and a child molester - after one cycling coach got sent to prison for molesting a junior rider, so the hysteria was still there.
I quit bicycling. All I do now is work. I have also kept all women out of my life since. Simply out of self preservation.


126 posted on 08/30/2019 12:37:45 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: BenLurkin

All this me too crap will not end well. Wait for Sharia Law comes into effect. Polygamy—will be legal. Will wife beatings be far behind?


127 posted on 08/30/2019 12:44:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound ovil.f the guns!)
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To: caseinpoint

It amazes me how women think they can dress for a night club atmosphere and then complain that men are ogling them. HR needs to corral all the women young and old and give them rules for dressing: no cleavage or hint of the same, no skirts above the knees, no painted on pants. Naturally, men will feel sad but better that than some tart claiming someone made them feel “uncomfortable”.


128 posted on 08/30/2019 12:54:23 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: Fred Hayek

Twenty years ago I was in the Marine Corps and we were gradually getting a few women in my squadron. Most were OK to be around until they screwed something up and they were in line for some kind of discipline. As soon as that happened they would inevitably pull out their ace in the hole, which was the “sexual harassment” claim. Once that card way played everything ground to a halt and the witch hunts began, the tailhook scandal was the most extreme example of that. I quickly learned that nothing good can come from anything more than minimal interaction with women you work with. Today in the corporate world that thought is still in my mind all the time. I interact with women I work with to the degree necessary to do my job, nothing more. If you’re around when something that could negatively affect them happens and they can get out of it by throwing the sexual harassment card 99% of them will do it. You don’t want to be the one that happens to be standing there as a convenient target. It’s a shame but that’s the way it is, nothing good can come of getting too close to female colleagues.


129 posted on 08/30/2019 12:56:09 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: CJ Wolf
Married 2 women I met at work.

At the same time?

130 posted on 08/30/2019 1:01:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RightGeek

Just avoid women period! If you’re not married to them then avoid them like the plague they can be.

Nothing but tragedy, sorrow, and devastation are the alternatives.


131 posted on 08/30/2019 1:02:38 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump IS MY president and I'm damn proud of him!)
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To: dfwgator

Lol. I wish.


132 posted on 08/30/2019 1:05:56 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (The world needs a spanking.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
There’s a lot to be said for being self-employed and working out of your home. Works well for me.

Me too.

No commute, no parking, no work clothes, no HR, no office politics, no a-holes.

133 posted on 08/30/2019 1:15:08 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: BenLurkin
How is this punishment? This protects women.

They say that it excludes women from settings (i.e., drinks after work, lunches, etc.) where deals or promotions often take place.

134 posted on 08/30/2019 1:17:40 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Tahoe3002
Sad. SJW Fascists love to seek positions in HR so they can enforce their worldview like this. I lost a position with a former company because of crooked play like this and because they wanted to steal $10,000 in earned vacation time which I had earned.

Fortunately, I found a better position within five months which not only pays better but has an "old school" HR manager who focuses on what is actually important than SJW crap like this.

135 posted on 08/30/2019 1:18:56 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: RightGeek
Yep, that’s right, almost a third of men are terrified to be alone in a room with a woman.

It has nothing to do with fear and everything to do with common sense. I have seen any number of careers ruined because of an accusation of sexual impropriety. Some were true and some were doubtful and some were flat out false. It did not matter. It is a stain that never quite washes off.

Now days I am reluctant to be alone in a room with only one other person unless they are a relative. Always have a witness.

136 posted on 08/30/2019 1:19:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Lizavetta

Maybe, I suspect plenty of promotions and deals are made at getherings where the women dont invite any men.


137 posted on 08/30/2019 1:20:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe, I suspect plenty of promotions and deals are made at gatherings where the women don't invite any men.

I would too. But feminism's basic tenet is that they get all the rights without all the responsibilities.

But then I'm sure you already knew that. :)

138 posted on 08/30/2019 1:26:17 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: dfwgator

I was about to post the very same thing.


139 posted on 08/30/2019 1:37:29 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (9/11/01 Never Forget. Never.)
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To: RightGeek

The “B”-side of Tommy James and the Shondells 45RPM 1966 hit ‘Hanky Panky’
was “Made Your Bed Now You Have To Lie In It”
How is that for worthless trivia? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQhhzD-F8Y


140 posted on 08/30/2019 1:42:58 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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