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Business Insider: 15% Of Women Have Slept With Their Bosses, 37% Promoted For It
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2010-08-26 00:51
Article here. Excerpt:
'Research from the Center for Work-Life Policy shows mid-level, professional women need powerful, senior executives to help promote them to the next level of management.
The problem is this: More often than not, superiors are males who are married.
Enter, sex.
In that same CWLP study, 34% of executive women claim they know a female colleague who has had an affair with a boss. Furthermore, 15% of women at the director level or above admitted to having affairs themselves.
And worse, 37% claim the action was rewarded: they said that women involved in affairs received a career boost as a result.'
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Surprise, surprise
In my salad days, I used to buy into the argument about women being forced to have sex in order to get a promotion or keep a job. And I'm certain in some cases that does happen.
Yet the riper I've gotten, the more I suspect the opposite is the real problem--women who use sex to get ahead. Sleep with the boss, get a promotion. Or use flirtation, sexual hinting, to avoid difficult assignments, as many women do in the Armed Forces. Or give President Clinton a blowjob for keeping abortion legal, as one female reporter said she'd do.
The classic notion of sexual harassment--men forcing women to have sex for a promotion--actually serves as a cover for what really happens--the woman offers sex in turn for a promotion. In those cases, if discovered, the woman can simply claim the man was at fault. He loses his job, she's a victim, perhaps entitled to compensation.
Much the same happened in the DV arena. As long as men are always the perps, women can be violent as they wish and still blame the man, especially if he ever strikes back, either in frustration or self-defense. In both cases, it's a win-win scenario for women, a no-win scenario for men. In short, classic feminism.
Re: Surprise, surprise
El Cid, you've got it correct.
El Cid said:
if discovered, the woman can simply claim the man was at fault. He loses his job, she's a victim, perhaps entitled to compensation.
So....
Two consenting adults conspire to undermine the professional operation of a business. They get caught. One co-conspirator is designated the perp. The other co-conspirator is designated the victim and is rewarded for her participation. The poor slobs that were passed over for the promotion due to the conspiracy are considered disinterested third parties. Sound right?
Both co-conspirators are guilty and the only victims are the other employees.
So do you
Arty wrote:
"Both co-conspirators are guilty and the only victims are the other employees."
Exactly.
use stronger business rules to limit these female abuses
As more women move into upper management in larger organizations, I expect there will also be more of these abuses by women. As the writer of the linked article points out, the organization involved loses due to morale problems, new factions amongst the staff, etc. We can expect that in the future, organizations will increasingly adopt policies specifying severe penalties for these types of abuses, probably both the male and the female. This is in the organization's best interest, but it is also going to limit and curtail these abuses by women. There are many other areas where the same theme (female abuses are bad for the whole community, not just men) can be observed, to begin the list: divorce related asset allocation, child custody agreements, and rape accusation processes. We in the MRA community need to talk more about how these Feminist-inspired female abuses are bad for the whole community, not just bad for men. I believe we will then be more likely to get rules blocking or providing penalties for these female abuses.
Good point
"We in the MRA community need to talk more about how these Feminist-inspired female abuses are bad for the whole community, not just bad for men."
It's my observation that people don't care much what happens to men--even other men don't care (until it happens to them). In the scenario we've been discussing, other women are hurt as much as other men. Helping them to recognize we have a common problem could lead to solutions.