tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post5091895005475850187..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: Daily Mail Readers, Know Your LimitsWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-56978017801630675802015-11-01T06:46:19.792+00:002015-11-01T06:46:19.792+00:00I've always thought that those who have a #Bea...I've always thought that those who have a #Beano brain (as in the Comic Book) or a #Private Eye brain should rule the world with Desperate Dan as the Premier. Good for farming with all of his Cow Pies and with Mr Hislop as his deputy, we'll be entertained for ever.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-81002453912457342232015-10-30T14:33:30.347+00:002015-10-30T14:33:30.347+00:00Hey ArchD, I am going to say something totally un-...Hey ArchD, I am going to say something totally un-PC here. I spent many years working in a female-dominated profession/environment: hospital nursing. And I came to certain conclusions about female management. Now you may not have noticed, but the majority of nurses are women, men make up only 10% of the total workforce. But take a closer look. Suddenly it leaps out that over 60% of senior managers are male. Look at the unions, same imbalance (the Royal College of Nursing, despite its grand name a union, is 50% male). Moreover, you will see men achieving senior management positions at a much younger age than their female counterparts.<br /><br />Now some of this is because historically men were more career-orientated than women. They would be to the forefront in putting themselves forward, applying for promotion, yada yada. <i>But</i>, and this is never mentioned, the profession actively pushed men upward and onward. I have been privy to discussions about promotion of male applicants where the (all-female) appointing committee would quite seriously say, meaning it as a clincher, "Well, he needs this move up because he's engaged and wants to get married next year." I have watched, quietly suppressing my mirth, a young (mid-twenties) Unit Manager <i>literally</i> bat his eyelashes in charming a team of hard-faced, middle-aged female nurses, when he wanted them to do something which their years of clinical experience informed them would be ill-judged - and get away with it. You hear jokes about the male menopause and male managers in thrall to busty secretaries; believe me, that's as nothing compared to the female manager who has discovered a male soulmate/virtual son among the workforce, whereafter everything hangs on his approval. It's hormones, not brain, that ultimately powers management. And the female is (or used to be) a bit older and experiencing motherly, rather than romantic, urges, hence more discreet about indulging these urges, that's all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com