The interest over my appetite for married men continues to surprise to generate more interest than anything else I’ve previously written. Maybe I’ve struck a nerve, a raw nerve even. Yet what’s the problem? Could it be that I’m irritating some because I’m behaving like…yes you’ve guessed it a man. This means being forthright, dominating, competitive and selfless and this is just in bed!
This attributes could account as to why you are not in the top job, when you’ve got the better qualifications, attitude, and commitment?
Historically feminists have pointed to patriarchy imposing structural constraints on women, more commonly known as the ‘glass-ceiling’. I guess if you haven’t yet banged your head on it then you’re guaranteed to do so sometime soon.
It’ll happen when you’re forced to put your career on hold to start a family, or simply because you’re paid less than a man for doing the same job. For some women it’s simply a matter of tradition, you’re place is in the home caring for all and sundry. Whatever its manifestation, male power will keep be you out of the boardroom.
But this view is under question by Susan Pinker in her book The Sexual Paradox. Her thought provoking perspective recognises that across 30 European Counties girls are outperforming boys in the three Rs.
However despite girl’s achievements surpassing those of boys Pinker argues that boardroom success will remain a dream for most women because of their innate disposition. She puts it down to women being hardwired for empathy.
Girls it would seem are biologically rather than socially engineered to be less extreme than men and so tend to be more consistent and steadier unlike their erratic male counterparts. Therefore,as Pinker’s argument goes, women are designed to want to limit their time at work and subvert a colleague in order to succeed.
Pinker’s theory might be right, but it still doesn’t mean women should have to put up with the raft of inequalities found in society which limit the opportunities of those girls that might not be so resolutely hardwired. Men have enough excuses to emasculate us they don’t need anymore so I’ll continue to emancipate myself from their iron-like grip.
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