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Gender Gapping
CBS News ^ | Nov. 14, 2006 | Dotty Lynch

Posted on 11/21/2006 9:28:20 AM PST by presidio9

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1 posted on 11/21/2006 9:28:22 AM PST by presidio9
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Women seem to be doing a wonderful job for all those other countries.


2 posted on 11/21/2006 9:29:44 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Van Jenerette

...reading.


3 posted on 11/21/2006 9:30:26 AM PST by Van Jenerette (U.S.Army 1967-1991 Infantry OCS, Hall of Fame, Ft. Benning Ga.)
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To: presidio9
So women are more liberal than men? Thank God I'm a guy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

4 posted on 11/21/2006 9:32:06 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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5 posted on 11/21/2006 9:32:17 AM PST by presidio9 (Tagline Censored)
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To: presidio9

Maybe American women who are married with kids prefer to actually see their children more than once a month and this is why national political jobs don't appeal to them.


6 posted on 11/21/2006 9:35:56 AM PST by Gingersnap
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To: presidio9

that CBS posting said : " .... The march to equality comes in baby steps ... "

That is not the best logic, to say that because women don't make up 51% of the seats in Congress that we are therefore not equal.

If there was a city School Board of Education that was composed of 5 seats and just so happened that all 5 members on the Board were women, that wouldn't mean that male students in that city are automatically not equal.

more CBS faulty logic


7 posted on 11/21/2006 9:36:12 AM PST by TracyTucson (Teachers : Overpaid and Underworked........ Eliminate > ADA, EOE, NLRB, SS, DOE)
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I know a woman who constantly grouses about her "very sexist" workplace. The only way to rise at the place is be a member of the "Boy's Club". A woman like her is just going to be treated like a secretary, and never given a chance to succeed.

I once mapped out her organization and chain of command. It's matrix management, and somewhat complex. But I did learn that she has 13 people above her. Two of them are men. She does not report to the men, and the men are very much in the middle, not running the show.

I showed her a diagram of this so-called "Boy's Club" -- 11 women, 2 men -- and she said "You don't get it ..."

8 posted on 11/21/2006 9:38:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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Although most women I know say that women bosses are harder for women to work for and impress than men bosses.

Speaking of which, I found all the women bosses I ever worked for to be difficult, and I'm a guy. They always seemed to have deep insecurity issues.


9 posted on 11/21/2006 9:43:54 AM PST by presidio9 (Tagline Censored)
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Although most women I know say that women bosses are harder for women to work for and impress than men bosses.

Speaking of which, I found all the women bosses I ever worked for to be difficult, and I'm a guy. They always seemed to have deep insecurity issues.


10 posted on 11/21/2006 9:43:54 AM PST by presidio9 (Tagline Censored)
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so many points here to discuss. I'll try to pick just one.... male turnout. In talking to both R and D precinct workers in the Il 6-Roskam-Duckworth and 8-McSweeney-Bean districts, one consistent opinion expressed from men who always vote Republican and most of always vote, was that this time these men were going to stay home in protest to the corruption in Illinois Politics. They were going to punish the non-corrupt candidates for Congress and lesser offices for the corruption in both candidates for governor.

In contrast, corruption was the #1 issue for women voters in IL also. But their response was to be even more certain to vote ... and to vote Democrat ... because both parties were corrupt ... but they expected Democrats to be corrupt. They held Republicans to a higher standard. The corruption of the candidates for governor also cascaded down-ballot to Republican candidates who were not corrupt.

The coup-de-grace was Hastert doing such a poor job of (again) covering up for the mis-deeds of others. He has done that for other Illinois politicians and now he was doing it for Foley ... or at least that was the image that Hastert himself projected in his direct comments to the media.

Bush had a long scheduled fund raiser for Roskam and McSweeney. (Apparently) Hastert's people were able to push Roskam and McSweeney into the background while Hastert got all the camera time and was a total disaster on camera, especially in the eyes of women he was a disaster. If the Dems were to run a video clip of Hastert there would be protests of dirty and unfair tactics from Republicans.


11 posted on 11/21/2006 9:43:54 AM PST by spintreebob (W)
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Maybe American women who are married with kids prefer to actually see their children more than once a month and this is why national political jobs don't appeal to them.

BINGO! Oh why wasn't I born back in the days pre-feminism?

12 posted on 11/21/2006 9:45:16 AM PST by momfirst
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Before 1848? The laundry alone would have been a deal-killer for me.


13 posted on 11/21/2006 9:46:08 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: presidio9

Thank God I was alive while these two lead the world. I wish they'd come back.


14 posted on 11/21/2006 9:52:08 AM PST by MissEdie (Liberalscostlives)
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Well, these women don't know what's good for them. (Sarcasm) They have to work hard and seldom see their kids so they can be in politics. Then their kids can see them sometimes on C-Span. Yep, that's what women need to apsire to.

Gees the way feminist logic works, any women who doesn't think that her professional career is the most important thing in her life is hopelessly retrograde, and needs to be re-educated.


15 posted on 11/21/2006 9:52:24 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: presidio9
Quotas are decidedly out of fashion in the U.S

Dotty sounds like she's enthusiastically in faver, however.

16 posted on 11/21/2006 9:52:43 AM PST by Nonstatist
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Although most women I know say that women bosses are harder for women to work for and impress than men bosses.

Speaking of which, I found all the women bosses I ever worked for to be difficult, and I'm a guy. They always seemed to have deep insecurity issues.

I find what you say is very true and I'm a woman.

There is such a phenomena called "estrogen overload" in an office environment. I hate it, and I do my best to avoid those situations, and focus on the work a hand, instead.

The liberal damnocrats will never get my vote, dead or alive. And only over my dead body will they have a chance.

17 posted on 11/21/2006 9:53:32 AM PST by kstewskis ( "Political correctness is intellectual terrorism..." Mel Gibson)
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To: presidio9

OMG and don't forget about the petty vindictiveness. I've worked for both women and men and I have always preferred to work for a man. Men are more straight forward, don't bring emotions into their jobs, and they do not get into petty little spats about issues irrelevant to the workplace. I have worked (and currently do) for women who constantly belittled and berated me not because I was doing my job poorly or incorrectly, but because I weighed less and was younger than them.


18 posted on 11/21/2006 9:56:03 AM PST by MissEdie (Liberalscostlives)
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To: kstewskis
  Just to give an opposite impression here...

  I make video games for a living, and it is very much a male-dominated industry. Still, we do have one woman in management on my current team, and she's just fine to work for. She is, to be fair, a definite gamer girl, and plays along with (or even leads) the joking and teasing that's a regular part of office life here. But she does a good job, and is advancing well. I've had no problems when I've worked with her, and I'm not aware of any more than the usual number of issues.

  So it's not like these problems with women apply to every woman in a management position.

Drew Garrett

19 posted on 11/21/2006 10:02:29 AM PST by agarrett
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In fairness, your female bosses were probably less likely to demand sex from you in return for career advancement...


20 posted on 11/21/2006 10:04:16 AM PST by presidio9 (Tagline Censored)
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