Re: US Presidential Election 2016
Reply #521 –
I don't peddle the 'Poor Woman' trope. She's plenty tough, as was Gillard. But there's a clear difference in how ambition and career-building is viewed where women are concerned. The Age ran a story yesterday that women don't get promotions because they don't ask for them. But asking for them makes them ball-breaking bitches. A bit of a catch-22 ...
What a load of crap. Work is a boys club but not in the men vs female case like the feminist movement would have you believe. Most men work a glass ceiling too, and seldom get places based on merit.
It's symptomatic of the world we live in.
Meanwhile the same men in the same circumstances resent women getting recognition for simply performing the same job as everyone else because they aren't a man.
In my work the only ones getting kudos are the ones who manage upwards not the ones who are necessarily most proficient.
Seems to be a similar story in other jobs I've had.