Give me strength. From the article:
Previous findings have shown that working in male-dominated places can cause social isolation for women. It has also been linked with performance pressures, sexual harassment, and obstacles to professional mobility.
Women also report experiencing moments of both high visibility and apparent invisibility, as well as doubts about their competence.
‘… can cause social isolation for women.’ Hold on, are we talking about working environments here, or places to go for a chat with other women?
‘Women also report experiencing moments of both high visibility and apparent invisibility…’. Why, those heartless patriarchs! In some moments paying women their full attention, in other moments paying them no attention. Have they not read the Patriarchy Council guidance note 2015/781, ‘Female colleagues: How to ensure they’re never made to feel uncomfortable’?
Some sanity in the comments section, from a woman:
Rubbish! I’ve worked in all female offices and hated it. Currently in an all male team and love it. I’m not a token woman and never been made to feel that either. I’m happy and productive and less stressed than I’ve ever been. Stop the man bashing!!
A man responded to her comment:
Thank you. I can safely say that the women who work with me feel the same, we all just do our jobs. The annoying thing is, I’ve not witnessed sexism in the workplace ever, but I guess it must be rife if it’s always in the papers.
PS: Mrs Gruff works in a female dominated, all female management team (Mrs G is one of the managers) and she hates it. This ‘report’ is just more infantile ‘men are to blame for women’s failure to compete’ nonsense. There’s always an excuse and it’s never their fault, and when they are shown that it was their fault they ‘couldn’t help it’.
No mention of the constant feelings of nausea and revulsion experienced by men working in female dominated workspaces. Typically it’s all them, them, them.
I’ve just left this comment on the DM site: I intend to get hold of this research and dissect it closely. My initial suspicion is that work where men predominate is simply more stressful type of work – after all, men account for 96% of work related deaths. Also this article does not mention whether the men’s cortisol level patterns were any different from the women’s (though the original paper may – I’ll see).
The Daily Wail. I’ve worked in primarily female workplaces and they are hideous. Their sole subjects of conversation are food and their relationships, and the bullying is terrible. Give me men every time; my business partner is male, and never a wrong word.
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