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“Ironically, he is a champion of women’s rights: ‘It’s a bit galling, because anyone who knows me knows that I’ve spent a fair chunk of my working life actually trying to ensure there are opportunities for women. I’ve definitely been on the side of the angels.”
Like those in the CBI you’d think they’d have got the message that their “virtue signalling” gynocentrism is no protection at all. It seems never to occur to them that women can be as cut throat in their own interests as men in the competition to climb corporate ladders. “Sexual harrassment ” now so wide as to include “unwanted compliments” is simply an additional weapon available to women to knock a few rivals off that ladder. John Allen appears to be in this group of businessmen whose “benign sexism” of favouring women on the assumption they are nicer than men and make things more convivial is now being shaken by the realisation that they aren’t “angels” at all. Perhaps Allen and the others in the CBI could redeem themselves by actually fighting for equality! Part of me always wondered if this bizarrely angelic view of women was because so many captains of industry had gone to all Male boarding schools and missed the bundle of vanity, entitlement, visciousness and social competition that is the teenage girl. But I see some were not so sheltered.