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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan I borrow your imaginations for a minute?
Pretend you're a bigshot in some business enterprise and a senior vice-president has you and other managers into his office to explain his idea for a drastic change in how the corporation operates.
"It's really verh simple" he begins, "what we've been doing for the last 50 years has been egregiously wrong. Wise men in the past---okay, the 'distant past'---understood that women are not intelligent enough to even make decisions about their own health so, obviously, they've not competent to make management decisions in a business. Therefore, all female employees above stenographer or file clerk are hereby discharged."
How long would it take for that misogynist tight-ass to be shown the door?
(All similarities between the above and recent events is intended)
hlthe2b
(102,279 posts)might well give them a blank check.
I won't post what I am thinking right now as I write that, but it isn't inspired by my life-long pacifist philosophy...
Mr.Bill
(24,294 posts)he would have to do it without me.
MANative
(4,112 posts)Before they were complete. He'd be out the door in about ten minutes, after quickly packing his belongings. Then again, ten out of twelve of our VP-level senior executives are female, so he would have maybe 30 seconds before we hanged him. (Not really kidding, though.)
slightlv
(2,801 posts)it's just around the corner... that, and quite a few other "rules" that were the law in the 1980's, 1970's, and prior...