Women work, so what?
It’s a fact. The human population is made of males and females. It’s a fact that both these genders work in the public relations industry. It is also a fact that in recent years the females have started to out-number the men. People spend a lot of energy trying to explain the reasons behind this. Some openly display their prejudices in doing so.
I recently took a briefing from a HR consulting firm that, when analysing managment structures in large UK businesses, lumped women with transgenders and homosexuals into one category.
I mentor a group of young people involved in the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise programme. A couple of girls on the team were chuffed that they’d be praised by a local business man because “it’s nice to see girls interested in business”.
This is shocking. Its now 2007. When will tire of making gender an issue in the workplace?
UPDATE: I just noticed the Forward Blog has a gender debate going too. I guess as long as there are men and women on the Earth, this will never stop. How boring.
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Good post.
I must ask though, what in my post was predjudice? People keep saying it but fail to state what in my post (which was a reflection upon another post on the great Forward-Moving blog), was prejudice?
Richard, I realise you are young and inexperienced, but do I really have to explain why making sweeping generalisastions based on gender, and most other indicators for that matter, displays flaws in your critical thinking? The fact that you think it’s appropriate demonstrates your prejudices.
I don’t disagree with your logic at all, I disagree with your perception that i’m sexist. Please can you quote which comments in my post were sweeping generalisations based on gender?
My post made two points:
1) The female perception of public relations in my class(!) to that of the male perception. As
2) It’s bad for any industry to be dominated by just one sex.
Thats the thing about prejudices. Our own are invisible to us. We all have them, it’s part of the human condition. (PS I never labled you a sexist, you’ve chosen that word yourself.)
I don’t find this boring so much as shocking. I had to check my stone tablet to see what century we were in…
Gracie, if you read the main post you’ll see that, like yourself, I do find it shocking. But the fact is that it never changes and the nattering goes on and on. When I use the word ‘boring’, I should have said ‘hopeless’.