How are the women treated in your country?

[strategist.com]

I watched the International Women's Day ad with Daniel Craig on it. I find it surprising that women in the West virtually have no chance of climbing up in the career ladders. I am Asian, from the Philippines, and based from the statistics 53% of executive positions in major companies are hold by women (talk about a country being backwards) and other Asian countries also has many female executives in their company. I have also seen a documentary and have shown that the exporting tycoon in Shanghai is a woman and the interviewer said that 'usually the tycoons are ugly fat bloke'.

[Basil II the B.S]

Right, unless women the majority of executive positions in major companies, the country is backward. Ah those evil males.
Not to mention that, according to constitutions and stuff, we are supposed to be equal regardless of genders, but for some, women are more equal than others and deserve pink quotas so that they can finally get those damned executive positions.

[Heinz Guderian]

In my country, we like to treat them as objects of sexual desire. And they love it. As opposed to Italy, where Silvio has given many (often attractive) women high positions of power.

[Basil II the B.S]

Exactly.. >_>

[Manuel I Komnenos]

Better than men.

[♔Goodguy1066♔]

Depends by whom. Most of them get treated well (though they complain about the lack of positive prejudice in the career, and when we do enforce positive prejudice they start complaining about it again), but many Haredi families remind me of Iran. Fortunately, the Arab-Israelis treat their women very well.

[Treize]

People here complain about that there are too few women in high positions. BS in my opinion.
There should be no discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination as well.

The real reason is that most women look after the kids and the household, possibly combined with some part-time job without career prespectives while the men work fulltime.

There is nothing wrong with this, it is natural.

[♔Goodguy1066♔]

People here complain about that there are too few women in high positions. BS in my opinion.
There should be no discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination as well.

The real reason is that most women look after the kids and the household, possibly combined with some part-time job without career prespectives while the men work fulltime.

There is nothing wrong with this, it is natural.

Though you have to agree that in most parts of the world, negative discrimination is widespread enough to put many women out of a job and thus leave them no option but to be a stay-at-home mum. Positive discrimination is sometimes necessary, especially when considering high position jobs, in order to break the vicious cycle of anti-women prejudice.

That being said, God help you if you try to help out an ultra-femenist ("what you think you're better than me? That I need help because I'm a woman? Chauvinist!").

[Treize]

Though you have to agree that in most parts of the world, negative discrimination is widespread enough to put many women out of a job and thus leave them no option but to be a stay-at-home mum. Positive discrimination is sometimes necessary, especially when considering high position jobs, in order to break the vicious cycle of anti-women prejudice.

That being said, God help you if you try to help out an ultra-femenist ("what you think you're better than me? That I need help because I'm a woman? Chauvinist!").

The best person should get the postition (in a company or a governmental organisation).

Blame the traditional role patterns. But these aren't wrong.
It was meant this way by nature/god. Exceptions are perfectly OK but we should not try to have more woman working fulltime and have men sit at home looking after the children/cleaning the house.

[Matthias]

The real reason is that most women look after the kids and the household, possibly combined with some part-time job without career prespectives while the men work fulltime.

There is nothing wrong with this, it is natural.

What's "natural" anyways? Certainly isn't "natural" in many other parts of the world or times in history.

In today's society, with the way we earn our living in much of the industrialized West, what was "natural" back in the tribal days surely is not so anymore.

[Big War Bird]

I am a trophy husband to a high powered doctor.

[Col. Tartleton]

I am a trophy husband to a high powered doctor.

Nice. That's what I'm shooting for. Stay at home dad who smokes a pipe, reads classical literature, and tries to seduce the maids.

[removeduser_4536284751384]

I am a trophy husband to a high powered doctor.

hmm interesting a medical student I was at secondary school with told me the other day she really really fancies me and has done since we first started school together 6 years ago.

What's your story?

[Big War Bird]

hmm interesting a medical student I was at secondary school with told me the other day she really really fancies me and has done since we first started school together 6 years ago.

What's your story?

Actually we meet while I was still a junior in high school, she was in college. We married after I left college and she was in med school. I worked until our first child was born and just before she finished her residency. That was about 7 1/2 years ago. Haven't had a real job since. I "retired" at 28. Now my life consists of going to the gym everyday, kids soccer, playing computer games and servicing her needs.

My wife is setting the curve for female doctors in her specialty. She just got elected to the state board, she gets consulted on new surgery devices, one company has asked her to endorse their products even.

I call her the "godmother" because so many other female doctors hcome to her for professional advice and help. And I only half jokingly say she is going to be surgeon general. With her position on the state board its only a matter of time before she will be on the national board and rubbing elbows with Congressmen and Senators.

[Manco]

Feminists raging about a glass ceiling often ignore the growing existence of a glass floor.

[removeduser_4536284751384]

I find it surprising that women in the West virtually have no chance of climbing up in the career ladders.

That's propaganda they have plenty of chance, companies are meritocracies.

It's just that usually women are worse at management than men (well there's debate over it actually but a very active feminist told me women were worse at it), so it's natural more men will be in the higher positions. That's not say there aren't lots of women who can do it too, but there are less women who are good managers than men simply by nature.

[♔Goodguy1066♔]

It's just that usually women are worse at management than men, so it's natural more men will be in the higher positions.

No we (males) aren't and it shouldn't be such a large gap.

[Sir Pignans]

No we (males) aren't and it shouldn't be such a large gap.

A couple of studies have shown men work harder than woman (In paid situations I think). Not sure if they've been disproved yet though.

[Rolling Thunder]

I believe it fundamentally comes down to a difference in skill sets, career choices and so on rather than rampant discrimination.

[waidizss]

In Capitalist Lithuania women are treated as beautiful beasts who time to time gets beaten up for being blonde. Our president is a woman. Actually woman are ones who are yet not corrupted by money in this country.