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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.) ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genderwars; goodnews; metoo; mikepence; winning; workplace
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To: Tahoe3002

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.

161 posted on 08/30/2019 7:57:09 PM PDT by Sarcasm Factory (Being a friend of the Clintons is like being bosom buddies with a great white shark.)
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To: TomServo

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!


162 posted on 08/30/2019 8:22:34 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: bert

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.


163 posted on 08/30/2019 11:28:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: setter

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.


164 posted on 08/30/2019 11:37:50 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: dgbrown

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.


165 posted on 08/30/2019 11:43:10 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cyclotic

You mean the whole thing was a prank?!

That is awesome!


166 posted on 08/31/2019 4:58:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: cuban leaf

We pranked the prankers. I couldn’t believe she went along with it.


167 posted on 08/31/2019 5:19:37 AM PDT by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: cgbg

“smart men refuse to mentor them”

You got it. Why give a woman words she’ll superficially use to unethically get promoted?


168 posted on 08/31/2019 6:21:10 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: joma89
I have no sympathy for leftist women.

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.

169 posted on 08/31/2019 6:33:08 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: RightGeek

The author has a chip on her shoulder.
An example off the top, ‘men are terrified’.
No, men are prudent.


170 posted on 08/31/2019 9:10:44 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: Chickensoup

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.


171 posted on 08/31/2019 2:07:29 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: RightGeek
This author is profoundly annoying.
172 posted on 08/31/2019 2:08:54 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: RightGeek
"Men now avoid women at work..."

Best birth control evah!

173 posted on 08/31/2019 8:14:09 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, st or fed election, is a vote against America.)
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To: polymuser

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.


174 posted on 09/03/2019 9:52:04 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: wardaddy

“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.


175 posted on 09/04/2019 6:21:17 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser; Yaelle; Pelham

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.


176 posted on 09/04/2019 9:05:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy

Cool story. They want stallions, not wagon-pullers.


177 posted on 09/04/2019 10:29:44 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser

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


178 posted on 09/04/2019 11:00:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: punknpuss

Plus one


179 posted on 09/04/2019 11:38:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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