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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 21 2019, @07:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the sad-state-of-affairs dept.

Fast Company:

LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey just released the results of a survey on the state of men and women interacting in the workplace in the age of #MeToo. The results are frustrating. The data reveals that 60% of male managers say they are uncomfortable performing common workplace activities such as mentoring, working one on one, or socializing with a woman. That's a 32% increase over last year.

To add insult to insult, senior-level men who were surveyed are now far more hesitant to spend time with junior female colleagues than junior male ones, across a range of basic work activities. The men were 12 times more likely to hesitate to have one-on-one meetings, nine times more likely to hesitate to travel with a junior woman for work, and six times more likely to hesitate to have a work dinner with a junior woman.

(Emphasis from original retained.)

A 32% increase in one year is a dramatic social trend.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @07:18AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @07:18AM (#845734)

    While the majority of women aren't that ruthless, the ones that are can destroy your career rather rapidly if they have built up a powerbase, or have the social media presence to judge you from outside the business.

    There are also plenty of asshole men who might take advantage of the situation or the power imbalance, but just based on anecdotal evidence, it is now a dragon and tiger situation, rather than the old wolf and sheep.

    Just based off my own experience, the average women is no problem at all. Many are capable of working with, below, alongside, or above men with no problems. But there is a certain group whose socially accepted behavior doesn't belong in the professional world, and that group seems to be the one gaining more power, just like the men they once rallied against. And what this group does undermines the needed trust and mutual respect for professionalism in the workplace just as much as the prior good old boys and sleazy male manager did, and sometimes still do. But women replacing those men with their own anti-social and unprofessional behaviors doesn't improve the situation, only prepare it for another backlash when the men become too marginalized, causing the pendulum to swing the opposite direction, rather than come to a half in the middle, like equality should entail.

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  • (Score: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @12:02PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @12:02PM (#845772)

    I think we should cut your pendulum off. What a sad fucking excuse for reactionary pseudo-left vs. full blown RWA good cop bad cop.

    So why aren't you men organizing and entering into struggle against the layers of bourgeois promoting this reactionary anti-sex nonsense instead of sitting around complaining like incels? You want some progressive men's issues? Genital mutilation. Mass incarceration. The intersection of race, class, and gender in black men. Stand with your colored brothers or fall!

    Or is it that you men are so fucking pathetic that you agree with sex negative pseudo-feminism because you think that sex-negativity is the key to turning your wife back into property?

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @01:57PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @01:57PM (#845799)

      We are. But, you call us alt-right.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @04:19PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @04:19PM (#845852)

        "Lebowski! Ve cut off your Johnson!"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @05:07PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @05:07PM (#845865)

      The above is why I, for one, feel really I'll at ease if I am expected to do this at work.

      Not the same AC as OP, but he expressed my situation exactly.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @05:17PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @05:17PM (#845869)

        I'll "at ease" you, you fucking autocorrected pervert! We all now know your "situation". Hope you are keeping your photo, and address, current on the nice website the DOJ provides for you for free!

        Seems that the Eds have inadvertently given us another alt-right click-bait story, this time misogynist rather than racist. And now we are flooded with pathetic MRA incels. How do I know this? Read on, dear Soylentil. The Mignty Buzzard is the one making sense. That is always a bad sign.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @07:42PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @07:42PM (#845902)

          I think the schizophrenic anti-right troll from Slashdot has come over to Soylent News for a visit. Bonus points to be awarded for calling someone a Nazi.

          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:49AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:49AM (#846001)

            Nazi

            No, these ACs are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @07:37AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @07:37AM (#846089)

              Donnie! Man down!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @07:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @07:36AM (#846088)

    In point of fact, he has a very small pendulum, so it does not swing very far, and cutting it off would not affect that status quo at all.