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Gender equity at UK top firms
Our thanks to Jeff for this. Dannii Mathers inadvertently touches on a long-understood phenomenon with this line:
“Maybe the problem isn’t finding female talent, it’s keeping it!!”
In her 2008 book The Sexual Paradox, the American psychologist Susan Pinker – sister of the better-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker – outlined how her research showed that the “under-representation” of women at senior levels in corporations (in particular) was attributable to women declining advancement to more senior roles because they wanted better work/life balance. Jordan Peterson was hired by a Toronto law firm wishing to end (or at least reduce) the departures of high-flying female lawyers after they entered their 30s. He admitted he’d failed with all of them.
Yet the attempts to push water uphill never end. Of course outside the private sector women have been far more “successful” in attaining senior positions, but that has little (if anything) to do with merit.
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Comments in response to Mike Buchanan’s thoughts on the decline and inevitable future collapse of Western civilisation
Two days ago we posted a blog piece, The best way to brew coffee, and a reflection on the future of Western civilisation. It concluded with these thoughts by Mike Buchanan:
The decline of Western civilisation is underway. Its collapse is both inevitable and irreversible.
I could have worded the second sentiment more accurately, and should have. If a collapse is inevitable it’s also irreversible. I should have replaced the sentence with, “Its collapse is inevitable.”
As he sometimes does, cp responded with some insightful comments, for which we thank him. They take up the remainder of this blog piece, the hyperlinks are ours:
“Hi Mike – Your observations on the trajectory of western civilisation and the root causes struck several chords at once!! The psychologist Joost Meerloo wrote a book in the mid-1950s – The Rape of the Mind – in which he described the methods of thought control which were were currently being used by authoritarian states. Magical Thinking features prominently. Meerloo and George Orwell probably knew one another through their wartime work for British intelligence. Orwell utilised his experiences to write a work of fiction in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Meerloo wrote his factual work. Both seem to have been utilised as a playbook for the feminist gaslighting we see all around us these days.
As companion volumes to Meerloo’s The Rape of the Mind, I’d heartily recommend The Master And His Emissary (2010) by Professor Iain McGilchrist. He details what can happen when the power-hungry (and oestrogen-sensitive) left brain is given too much of the power it seeks. Much of that behaviour we see all around us has its roots in female ressentiment.
The other companion volume is The Rape of the Male Mind by Michael Steane. It gets to the root of how Pandora’s Box was opened. Quote:
“Our big mistake was to give women the vote. After that, the modern male tragedy became inevitable. When women got the vote, they became the majority of the electorate. Politicians at odds with each other on every other issue fell over each other to pander to the female vote. These politicians, being men, did not understand what women want, and (convincing themselves that they were modern un-sexist men), wantonly gave away men’s rights. These are not the rights women want, but they are the rights men need. Thus, men have been impoverished, while women have not been enriched.”
This process began at a time when nearly all politicians were male. Slowly, but surely, like a ship running down a launchway, the chains which at one time slowed it down – the male checks & balances – are all but lost. Now, with a preponderance of feminist politicians (of both sexes), magical thinking can run amok… crew members of forced ‘equality’ vying to guide a mammoth, rudderless vessel which will take everyone down with it when it hits the rocks.”
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How Medieval Marriage Law Institutionalized Female Hypergamy (The Morgengabe Betrayal)
BBC Radio 5 Live: Mike Buchanan debates with Holly Combe the issue of consent to sex (Stephen Nolan Show, 2015). File #81 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.
Today’s file is here (12:47).
Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.
Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).
Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.
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Diane Keaton RIP
I watch only one or two films a year, including one at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin every July, with a friend. So it would be fair to say few people are less knowledgeable about films than myself. But I watched more films as a young man, and one that remains dear to my memory is Annie Hall (1977), directed by and starring Woody Allen. The part of Annie Hall was played by Diane Keaton, who sadly died yesterday. Wikipedia reports that many of Keaton’s mannerisms and self-deprecating sense of humor were added into the role by Allen. Keaton once said that Allen wrote the character as an “idealised version” of herself.
I must have been 19 or 20 when I saw the film. and simply fell in love with the kooky main character, played by Keaton. It is said that Keaton remained close to Allen to the end of her days, and to her great credit never joined in the character assassinations of Allen in relation to his intimate relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow’s then 21-year-old adopted daughter.
An extract from the Wikipedia page on the film takes up the rest of this blog post:
Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977, before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton. The film additionally won four BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction (for Allen), Best Screenplay (for both Allen and Brickman) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Keaton), in addition to the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (for Keaton). The film’s box office receipts in the United States and Canada of $38,251,425 are fourth-best of Allen’s works when not adjusted for inflation.
Regarded among the greatest films ever made, it ranks 31st on AFI‘s list of the 100 greatest films in American cinema, 4th on their list of the greatest comedy films and 28th on Bravo’s “100 Funniest Movies”. Film critic Roger Ebert called it “just about everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie”.
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Women risking breast cancer by ‘always putting ourselves last’, says Liz Hurley
Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:
“Liz Hurley has encouraged women to check themselves for breast cancer – and warned some are not because they “are scared that it’s self-indulgent to spend time on themselves”.
The British actress and model, who has been a global ambassador for the Estee Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign for 30 years, told Sky News’ Jacquie Beltrao the demands of everyday life mean women “always put ourselves last”. [J4MB: We’ve noticed that…]
“We’re doing stuff for kids, for husbands, for mothers, for in-laws. There’s so much that we have to do that we tend to come last,” she said.
More than a third of women in the UK do not take up the first mammogram appointment they are offered…”.
More men die of prostate cancer in the UK than women die of breast cancer, and that’s been the case for a few years. But no men in the UK take up offers of a screening programme appointment for prostate cancer because – scandalously – no such programme exists.
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Suspended Labour MP Rachael Maskell says her ‘stomach churned’ when seeing colleagues waving St George’s flags.
Interesting. Extracts from her Wiki page:
“Speaking at a university event, Ms Maskell said: “I personally think we need a little bit of a break from flags right now, and my stomach churned at Labour party conference when everyone got out their St George’s flag… that’s not the Labour party.”
In September 2015, during the European refugee crisis, Maskell called on the UK to open its doors to refugees…
On 5 March 2019, Maskell joined a dozen other Labour MPs on Westminster Bridge, next to the Houses of Parliament, in a protest against Brexit under the banner “Love Socialism Hate Brexit”…
In 2023 Maskell suggested that English local councils should introduce maximum speed limits of 10mph in residential areas…
On 5 November 2024, Maskell tabled an early day motion calling for the introduction of a “Gaza Family Visa Scheme” based on the Ukraine Family Scheme, which would allow those affected by the Gaza war to seek refuge in the UK…”
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Justice for Men & Boys 