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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.
(Score: 4, Disagree) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday May 21 2019, @03:36PM (2 children)
It is possible for men and women to work together, and for the inherent sexual tensions to be managed. Everyone should have learned acceptable behavior from high school and their parents. Admittedly, lots of families suffer from various degrees of dysfunction and tragedy. All the more reason high school is needed to pick up the slack. Sadly, sex ed class in high school is a political football, grudgingly offered and too often mangled to conform to many opposing agendas. It's one of the casualties of society's squeamishness and repressiveness about all things sexual.
How depressingly typical of management to decide that the best course of action is to kick out one gender. Let's fix a roof leak by burning down the house. So the next time an employee causes trouble, perhaps over being allowed to observe their particular religious holidays, is management going to decide never to hire any members of that particular denomination? No Catholics, or Southern Baptists, or Shiite Muslims, or followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Or, let's not be picky, no monotheists! The brush can't be too broad. No Christians, Muslims, Jews, or FSMers!
Reminds me of the policy at one of the places I've worked. Their policy was that there shall be no relationships between employees. Causes too much trouble in the workplace. Any two employees that start dating one another were to be terminated. Got to confine your romancing to people who don't work for your employer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @11:58PM
Absolute failure to equate a situation, check. Not giving everything to women, even when they rage uncontrollably, check. Espousing the benefits of the situation that nearly burnt your house down, check. Claiming that removing a repetitively bad factor is equavalent to burning your house down, check.
You must be female.
Sounds like the point of this story was that to fix the house burning down they removed items that they have personal experience with being flammable.
Did you know, it's national Rape Accusation Day?
You mean like the Westboro Baptist Church? In fact, I consider the WBC _less_ detrimental to society than too many women. So yes, lets exclude the WBC members as well.
I'm betting that there was no such relationship between the accused and the accuser. Revenge, power, the accuser accuses. The accused is then guilty by default and the accuser is rewarded. (With no evidence, the accused was terminated, and the accuser was paid off.) That is the whole problem -- women _benefit_ from making these accusations. The accused _always_ suffers. There is no case in which this is bad for _women_ specifically. As they're a special group, let them be treated specially -> not at all.
(Score: 1) by ChrisMaple on Wednesday May 22 2019, @03:53AM
Are you kidding? Sex education is mechanics, biology, and pornography.
What's needed is training in ethics and Emily Post style manners.