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WingDinger

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1. Actually really bad news for womens equality.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 12:33 PM

Mar 2012

If I ran a crew or whatever, and I contemplate a woman hire, do I change the dynamic? And how long before a woman's gender is ignored?

Can we expect decent work out of males after some time to cool his jets? Actually, I rather like what a woman does to a workplace. But this study could be used for ill.

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Interacting with a Woman Can Leave Men "Cognitively Impaired" [View all] n2doc Mar 2012 OP

Actually really bad news for womens equality. WingDinger Mar 2012 #1

Could you elaborate on what a woman does to a workplace? a simple pattern Mar 2012 #5

Well, that depends. In the trades, it completely changes the feel. WingDinger Mar 2012 #6

How about you hire all women and gay men and let the men go off and learn some discipline. TalkingDog Mar 2012 #9

Interesting longship Mar 2012 #2

Thus Faux Noise is replete with allegedly attractive women to dumb their male viewers down faster? freshwest Mar 2012 #3

Interesting--when they reversed it, the women didn''t have the same effect. MADem Mar 2012 #4

"Of course, there were no real people involved--just names." dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #11

Flash! Breakthrough! "Men act stupid around women!" well, doh! We've known this forever. nt Speck Tater Mar 2012 #7

Part of the peacock ritual, I guess. It works sometimes. freshwest Mar 2012 #8

We think with our other head around women? They needed a study for this??? Odin2005 Mar 2012 #10