onfession time:
have you ever looked
around at work,
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exasperated, and
declared women
bitchy, emotional, food-obsessed
and prone to erratic outbursts?
Do you think men are more
level-headed, direct and decisive?
If the answer’s yes, you’re not alone.
A recent survey showed two-thirds
of women would rather work for
a man. And, with the media’s
constant anti-female stance (we’re
all fat/dippy/not to be trusted,
according to most female columnists)
it would seem we have become our
own worst enemies. The equality
women fought for is being attacked,
bizarrely, by ambitious women.
Reality show The Apprentice is
the perfect case in point. For the
last four years, Alan Sugar has
THE ANTI-FEMINISTS
DO YOU
THINK
WOMEN ARE
TOO
WEEPY OR
BITCHY
AT WORK?
If your answer is yes,
you may be one of the new generation
of female misogynists
provided the ideal platform for
ambitious female entrepreneurs in
an industry still dominated by men
(73% of business owners in the UK
are male). The female contestants
should have been supporting each
other. Instead, some stabbed each
other in the back, with 2009 finalist
Kate Walsh twisting in the knife
when she confessed her nightmare
would be working with an
all-female team. “Too much
emotion, in my experience,” she
complained, generalising her sex
with a sweep of the hand.
Then there was the Harriet
Harman backlash. When she
covered for Gordon Brown’s
holiday this summer, she faced a
barrage of female-centric abuse,
with one newspaper journalist
writing: “When Harman
implies that her promotion
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