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Justice for Men & Boys 
University was supposed to prepare me for work – it did the opposite | Metro News
This really gives an insight into a lot of the graduate women’s mind set “dreams of quadrangles and reading Austen all day,” at University, basically three years of being a school girl. Followed by a baptism of fire in actual work. The result : help from parents and a counsellor and a step into a less stressful job. Now in this case the writer recognises that she had simply not prepared for the world of work. Importantly that the demands of her first job weren’t “oppression” or “harrasment” and her upsets were not her employer ruining her “mental health”; unlike so many like her. All too many go into University basically as a continuation of the protected life ” Could I write an analytical essay comparing 18th century authors? Without a doubt.” And having only had lavish praise throughout education, think of the use of “amazing” as the common adjective applied to anything females do. It turns out to be a shock when stuff has to be done and sometimes criticisms are made. Reading this actually one finds all the things that are supposedly barriers to women in work, all the feminists supposed see as some patriarchal plot. But which are really simply the result of a very protected life. So coddled, in a way her male peers will never have experienced. I’m not an advocate of ignoring boys mental health but the fact they don’t get coddled probably does them little harm in general.
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From 1977 until the early 2000s, I worked in STEM, Blue Chip Companies. Initially, these were all male laboratories where, effectively, I was being paid to do something I loved, and all around me were motivated by a search for objective truth. Gradually, that changed with women quota placements. Eventually found myself in an unrecognisable environment. These women were forging careers, where all definitions of ‘forge’ were acceptable. I had projects sequestered to prop them up, and mask their ineptitude. One women received an undeserved promotion, on the basis of my own work. Flush with this success, she promptly left her husband (and their two kids) and attempted to climb the greasy pole even higher by seduction of a middle manager. When this man was transferred sideways, she was left high and dry. Reality overcame the Dunning-Kruger effect, and she had a slow nervous breakdown. Cue more chaos, as more projects re-allocated to prop her up. The woman in charge of biological performance testing was skewing results in favour of her (married) boyfriend, who had promised her that he’d leave his wife. Another woman was deliberately submitting my molecules for the wrong biodegradation tests, as success would hinder progress of her own molecules. When I sent a professional e-mail querying how long I should have to tolerate this, she burst into tears while the Head of Department was (conveniently) around, and I found myself on a disciplinary.
By 2003, I’d had absolutely enough, and quit. That Company was ICI, in its death throes.
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