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 ...
Several years ago, in a Houston office, four men were sitting in the break room, having coffee and discussing, among themselves, their weekend deer hunts.
A female coworker entered the break room for coffee and overheard the conversation. She immediately went to HR and filed a complaint against all four men for creating a ‘hostile work environment’. No words were exchanged between these men and the female. All four men now have an entry in their personnel files.
As Mr. Limbaugh said many years ago, the quote may not be exact; “the feminist movement was only created so ugly women would have more access to men and jobs”.
I know it’s not an exact quote but it is as close as I can remember.
From the article: “19% of men would be reluctant to hire an attractive woman”
Guess the fat, smelly, ugly ones have finally won!
When I was a department supervisor (way back when) I noticed around 1993 to 94 that all my suppliers and vendors started hiring well stacked, young, very good looking female sales reps.
They would come into my office wearing slinky more cocktail dresses (and short) rather than what I would have considered professional business attire.
If they closed my office door on their way in, I would get up and open it back up and give my secretary the wink, wink, nod, nod. My secretaries desk was situated so she could see straight into my office.
I would give them 3 or 4 minutes for their sales pitch until I figured out what they were selling, them fob them off on my shop foremen.
Phyllis and I would howl with laughter when the shop foreman would come in about an hour later with a list as long as your arm of the crap he wanted me to order.
The lists usually went into the “ROUND FILE”, I knew what my mechanics needed and made sure they got the necessary tools and materials.
What really made Phyllis laugh was when the foremen would thank me for the eye candy.
Don’t be a pussy, she’s a doctor, expect her to be a professional and that’s what she will be.
Last female doctor who examined me just treated me like a cold side of beef.
JUST ANOTHER PATIENT.
Don’t know your age but if you want to meet a whole lot of ladies go back to night school.
Most of them are already professional women who are there to upgrade their qualifications.
Just don’t act like a pushy ass.
You mean the whole thing was a prank?!
That is awesome!
We pranked the prankers. I couldn’t believe she went along with it.
“smart men refuse to mentor them”
You got it. Why give a woman words she’ll superficially use to unethically get promoted?
They aren't even that hard to identify - especially during the interview process. Small businesses don't have as many #MeToo issues because cautious owners tend to weed out troublemakers (of both sexes) very carefully before letting new employees in. Big companies who are under pressure to meet diversity quotas or hiring for some reason other than productivity have many more problems. Sociopaths have a much easier time fooling corporate HR types.
The author has a chip on her shoulder.
An example off the top, ‘men are terrified’.
No, men are prudent.
I am also now out of the day to day but that is a better rule these days. I know it hurts up and coming people with bosses of a different gender, but it is where we are at right now. In the early days of the women’s liberation movement, it tended to just say, “treat us as one of the guys”. When I started my profession, three-piece suits were de rigeur for both sexes. That slowly changed as women, I believe, decided they didn’t like acting and looking like men and started demanding professional respect while eventually dressing like hookers. So the rules changed again for men and again the transition is rough. I’m glad to be out of the rat race.
Best birth control evah!
That’s not really a fix for the general situation between the sexes though, just a way for men to minimize risk and consequences personally for themselves. But yeah, that’s going to be happening more and more unless women decide to ditch feminism en masse or something.
“More than once a feminist has called me a guilty pleasure...God love em.”
Their dirty little secret. Fun, as long as they don’t cling.
I swear on my horses..
May they be struck down if I’m lying....
I’ve been involved with a few feminists....one a prominent Jewish one..but that’s another story.
Another was hyper educated...Skidmore Colgate Columbia
Doctorate degree
We actually lived together...after we broke up and she left me for a songwriter....she’d get bored or lovelorn and ask for what they now call booty calls
After awhile ..I met another more permanent woman and ended the booty call thingie
Her exact words to me that last encounter in Piermont New York at a lovely inn on the Hudson was ...”at least with you I always knew I was with a man.....there’s no ambiguity about that with you Charlie”
Lol..bless her heart...big words to the end.
She is a fond memory now.
Cool story. They want stallions, not wagon-pullers.
I’m nothing special
Typical Deep South long hair born 1957
We are masculine compared to today but maybe less so than our grandads
It’s conditioning
Nurture
Case in point
I have 3 boys 12-19
All masculine even look as such
Brows jaws etc
My wife and I raised them different than most of their peers with younger parents
I’m no cowboy that girls swoon over
I’m just a man who’s craved female intimacy since I was 29 maybe
Best thing going
Plus one
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