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So apparently Mike Hosking is talking for Women again saying the reason so many do not go on to be the bosses and there is a gender disparity at the top is by choice and it’s not due to sexism.
I was just wondering, how many of the woman readers on here elected Mike as your spokesperson?
At companies I’ve worked at often the women middle managers were ‘,over qualified’ for their job and had things like MBAs that wouldn’t be anyuse for the top job they didn’t want anyway .Lol.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/2018669555/late-career-glass-ceiling-for-women-lawyers
Corporate life is not for the faint-hearted, you’ve got to be ruthless, willing to piss blood and cut throats if you want to make it to the top.
Very few guys have the personality and drive required to succeed in that environment, hardly surprising that there’s only a handful of women that have succeeded.
‘ make it to the top.’
this is someone who ..’made it to the top’!
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jamie-dimon-said-he-could-afford-fines-2015-3?r=US&IR=T
Most top jobs aren’t like that at all…you’ve been watching the wolf of wall St reruns haven’t you.
no you patronising lightweight..where are you?
http://i0.wp.com/www.amendmentgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/feudalism_then_now.jpg
You mean sociopaths, I take it? What a wonderful world we live in !!
It’s just the way it is.
And that’s ok, is it?
Not really, but It’s not going to change anytime soon, lots of tradition in play here.
Sing it to us BM
“Some things’ll never change”
As much as Hosking is a prat, are you saying only women can voice an opinion on gender equity?
And if any men do, they are just trying to speak for women?
As pointed out…
It’s not only woman who make the choice to opt out of engaging with the higher levels of corporate machinery..
It’s well document the personality types who ‘thrive’ and are promoted towards the pointy tip of the triangle…
It is neither a man, nor woman ‘thing’…
Sheez the stupid it really hurts sometimes.
What a fucken arse.
Best thing he ever did was to give up TV to ‘spend more time with his family’.
No ZM on the wireless here, life is good 🙂
Not me that’s for sure!!
NZ’s unequal education system
IIRC, National were saying the exact opposite throughout their latest term in government while they blamed the poor for being poor and put in place sanctions on beneficiaries that hurt the children of those beneficiaries.
Nikki went to private school.
She would say that….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/108305566/jacinda-ardern-wants-answers-over-czech-drug-smuggler-residency-probe
Just read between the lines Cindy and you’ll get it 🙂
(IMHO theres no conspiracy just a massive cock-up by Shrek)
Shrek – wool over his eyes ?
Another broken system by the sounds of it.
It was disturbing to find that the prior government allowed residence to some pedo’s.
Wee glitch with a cache on the tmp directory overflowing. Increased the size threefold. Will have a look for the offending images later.
Damn, I hope that wasn’t me.
Tried to post a link to Housing NZ data twice before realising I was linking to the tables themselves – not a webpage. Apologies if it was.
“That’s the problem with the use of ministerial discretion- it’s not transparent”.
Ian lees-Galloway.
Useless and hypocritical.
template here..
2014- ‘Deputy Prime Minister Bill English says while he accepts the Inspector-General’s report into former Labour leader Phil Goff and the SIS, there is nothing unusual with journalists and politicians talking with each other.
He told TV3’s The Nation this morning that Prime Minister John Key ran the “most transparent Govt ever’
🙁
NZ recently dodged three hollow-pointless ‘bullets’: Key, English and National. The self-serving, do-nothing hoopla of the opposition is now plain for all to see.
‘What am I bid‘ for this large, ‘integrity in tatters’ political party – handyman’s dream, previous owner-occupiers moving offshore, “Everything must go!”, etc.
Hah! As transparent as a black hole; most of Key’s ‘assurances’ were along the lines of “nothing to see here, moving on” and Joyce’s “it’s pretty legal”.
Really? OIA took months… sometimes years!! Transparent as concrete.
To be fair not all OIA requests took months or years.
The strange thing is though all the ones that passed through the OIA request system faster than the Flash all seemed to be related to the opposition parties of the National government at the time or people it did not like.
Bolsonaro fan boy….says it all.
I said he was charismatic- not that I was a fan.
See that’s how he got all of those people to vote for him.
May the force be with us all if the bishop inspires brian tamaki.
Making more cattle farms at the expense of the Amazon rainforest.
Your kind of guy.
Well, perhaps that’s why so many people voted for him – a big FU to the whinging vegans.
worse than we thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikOABrTRCFY
A worldwide phenomenon that we are not immune to….coalition take note.
So a timorous party says it will address the concerns of poorer people in the country – but runs scared of vested interests instead, and as a result exacerbates some of the problems being experienced by poorer people. So they execute a basic liberal programme of austerity leading to unemployment and rising crime etc – which in turn leaves the middle class aghast “at the state of things”….and then get “taken down” by those whose appeasement was being sought in the first place (liberal centrists and fellow travelers).
It could end there, but…
Along comes a charismatic arsewipe with some 2″ x 4″ “solutions.
And a pile of evangelicals whose bigotry dovetails with aspects of those 2″ x 4” solutions
Throw in some industrialists paying for smears to be propagated through social media (whassap in this instance), and alongside any disengagement or what not from people feeling betrayed by said timorous party….pull back the curtains and let a darkness flood the auditorium.
So, I’ll take a moment to have a swipe at the Russians! brigade with their pom poms and ask “Where are the Russians in all of this?”
But yeah, to levels or degrees, similar shit is going on everywhere. In some places it’s either more advanced or has the potential to advance, while in others it’s probably going to get washed out by any resurgent social democracy rediscovering gumption.
And where’s NZ?
Well, it seems to me as though we’re meaninglessly spinning between two points – one marked by a timorous party running scared of vested interests, and the other by a party that wholeheartedly embraces vested interests.
What happens when we “spin out”?
in many ways it dosnt matter what happens here…NZ being an insignificant player in the great game will be caught up in any global phenomenon and as such is unlikely to be a leader in the trend but history would indicate we will likely be a ‘fast follower’…..having said that, it would be nice to see an attempt by the political class here to be original (and honest) and at least place the option to the public but again history would suggest we dont hold our breath….and in any case I doubt ‘the public’
(majority) would seize the opportunity.
Like CC its all too hard and there is a dearth of intellect and courage.
Pat. That boggles the mind.
Nobody noticed recently?
“Cellphones do cause cancer:”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/14/mobile-phones-cancer-inconvenient-truths
I’ve known this for years after reading science on cell towers. But nobody listens, despite innovative research and several degrees, I’m not a scientist as I’ve threatened their Farmworld and Fortnite addictions, therefore I am a shrill nutter…
And, similar to tobacco and global warming, they’ve rolled out the ‘controversy’.
Now get those damn things out of your children’s hands and stop feeding these inhuman corporate monsters.
I hope you aren’t using WiFi to post that comment. Schools, homes, businesses, you name it, now have radio signals for computer networks, cell phone data and voice etc. This has been the case now for some time. If it was as dangerous as you make out, it wouldn’t be able to be hidden. Also the change has been so stark, it would be very easy to compare. “But nobody listens, …”. I did listen. I researched and considered the facts and concluded that it was BS.