15% Of Women Have Slept With Their Bosses -- And 37% Of Them Got Promoted For It

Business Insider ^ | 8-25-2010 | Alyson Shontell

[Brookhaven]

Research from the Center for Work-Life Policy shows mid-level, professional women need powerful, senior executives to help promote them to the next level of management.

In that same CWLP study, 34% of executive women claim they know a female colleague who has had an affair with a boss. Furthermore, 15% of women at the director level or above admitted to having affairs themselves.

And worse, 37% claim the action was rewarded: they said that women involved in affairs received a career boost as a result.

Meanwhile, all this hanky-panky is really screwing the rest of us, says Slyvia Ann Hewlett at Harvard Business Review’s Blog:

61% of men and 70% of women lose respect for a leader involved in an affair. Most poisonous of all, when a junior woman is having a sexual dalliance with the boss, 60% of male executives and 65% of female executives suspect that salary hikes and plum assignments are being traded for sexual favors. This can have a disastrous effect on morale and productivity. Forty-eight percent of men and 56% of women feel animosity towards the involved couple, and 39% of men and 37% of women see a fall off in productivity as the team splinters. Talk about collateral damage!

[faucetman]

Sex for money, what is a person who does this called? /s

[nesnah]

I saw that! ROTFLMAO

[nickcarraway]

I thought the women at CNN were angry, and felt that woman should be fired for having a unfair advantage.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Willie’s Willie gave us a VP

[cdcdawg]

With the CNN staff & Zucker’s supporters saying “what’s the big deal?”

There’s obviously more, and his resignation is part of damage control operation. Feminism is cultural poison.

[PGR88]

there always seemed to be a woman who rose high in the organization (in terms of pay) but didn’t seem to have any clearly defined role or responsibilities. These women were usually “friends” of one of the upper-level male managers.

I worked for a company in Brazil, where the GM in Sao Paolo had an executive secretary, who was also his mistress. I learned she was actually the mistress to the previous GM as well. To their credit the relationship wasn't obvious at first, and she was very smart, professional - and smokin' hot as well. If she was included as part of the compensation package, it would be difficult to turn down

I didn't get deeply into office politics there, but Brazilians told me such arrangements were quite common.

[Fireone]

Very misleading headline!
“15% of women at the director level or above” does not equal 15% of women.

[cdcdawg]

Wow. That is a great take. I see a Facebook suspension in my near future.

[Salvavida]

And half of them are DIA whores.

[al baby]

yes three minutes at a time

[Interesting Times]

Now do affirmative action.

[al baby]

You mis spelled thin air

[BitWielder1]

This is what the sexual harassment laws were about, before they morphed into draconian speech code law designed to entrap just about every male.

[Purdue77]

From Soylent Green, she’s furniture.

[Jonny7797]

Is this about Camel toe Harris?

[silverleaf]

Some of them even ran for President and got picked as VP candidates by other candidates…right, Senator Cruz?

[Karliner]

Sounds kinda like the FBI stats on 13% of the population make 50% of the [redacted].

[qaz123]

Enter Kelly Loeffler. She not only got promoted, she became a US Senator.

[mass55th]

There was a time liberals called that “sexual harassment.”

[Steve_Seattle]

"I didn't get deeply into office politics there, but Brazilians told me such arrangements were quite common."

My girlfriend is from the Philippines and says this sort of thing is rampant there. In the Philippines, the "casting couch" concept isn't limited to the entertainment industry.