Woman's work is never done – as profitably as man's

Submitted by Broadsword on Fri, 2009-08-07 17:06

Article here. Excerpt:

"In an unhappy moment for the politically correct, the academics claim that their research shows that having more women in the boardroom can have "a negative effect on financial performance".

While companies with more women on their boards tend to have better corporate governance, they are less profitable and have a smaller market capitalisation, according to the paper.

Dr Daniel Ferreira, from LSE's Department of Management said: "This is a complicated picture. Our research shows that women directors are doing their jobs very well. But a tough board, with more monitoring, may not always be a good thing. Indeed, we see that increased monitoring can be counter-productive in well-governed companies."

The research comes just days after, Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, repeated a quote about "Lehman Sisters, not Lehman Brothers" to warn that the lack of women in senior business roles was one of the reasons for the financial crisis.

Miss Harman, who is standing in for the Prime Minister while he is on holiday, wasn't available for comment yesterday.'

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I DO love that corny old saying... ;-)

In my experience in the workplace, a woman's work is never done because she's:

too busy gossiping with her 'colleagues'

too busy crying because she's feeling 'hormonal'

too busy bitching about absent women

too busy whining about how 'lazy' their men are (oh such irony!!!)

In my workplace, the vast majority of work is carried out by the men (who are outnumbered 2 to 1) while the woman sit round talking about new shoes, clothes, make up, what new hairstyle would suit them, families, holidays, sex, celebrities etc etc.

They do the absolute bare minimum required of them.

The nauseating thing about this is - I work in the public sector (in Britain) and these women are paid just as much as me (more, in some cases, thanks to them being there longer) and are virtually un-sackable.

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"They have the right to work wherever they want to - as long as they have dinner ready when you get home." (John Wayne)

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Submitted by Proud_to_be_a_man on Sat, 2009-08-08 12:37