Reply #238: This list is symptomatic of the generational divide on DU [View All]

[cgrindley]

many of these issues were true back in the 1970s, but for people entering the work force today, or finishing higher education today, or encountering the legal system today, or raising children today, or simply existing in America of 2008... almost none of it's true and some of it is dangerously and offensively false. If anything, young women have it much better today than young men. They attend college more frequently, graduate more frequently, and yet still benefit from hiring practices designed to address the problems of an entirely different millennium. People need to get over themselves. They need to realize that their life experiences back in the 1970s are utterly irrelevant today.

In my office, there are 23 full time employees. Of these, 8 are men and the rest are women. Both the director and the deputy director are women. Every single person on the hiring board is a woman. My firm's president and half of its vice presidents are women.

Times have changed. The OP and the dinosaurs posting anti-male vitriol in this thread need to join the 21st century.