Recently, a Dutch book appeared stating that the lack of women in (higher) functions (in The Netherlands) is not caused by any "glass ceiling", but is caused by women themselves, who mostly want part-time jobs, are twice as much ill as male employees, complain more than males about what is not nice about their work (work apparently always having to be fun) and are more prone than men stepping out of the job at the first inconvience. All this making (male) employers rather wary of employing women, especially in demanding functions. Also the book mirrored Thal's remark in asking why there are feminist activists demanding an equal share in leading funtions, but not in, say, garbage collector functions. The book also slashed the activists demand that women should be given leading cunctions, stating that women should, like men, work there way up by starting low, work hard and prove their capacity of growing. In short, the book demands of women to stop complaining and start working their fair share if they want a fair share. That, if they want to be takes as equals to men, which the book also stated to be an absolutely rightful demand, the should damn well behave as equal to men, and not as whimpering twits complaining how hard it all is.
Needless to say, the book was slashed and burnt by the Women's Rights League and similar, a protest that lost quite a bit of momentum when it became clear that is was written by a woman. Who has worked hard, and has made a very succesful career too. Apparently it is a bit tricky to call a woman a male chauvinist pig, and somewhat difficult to complain about how a woman has achieved exactly that what the Feminist League want women to achieve.
You'd almost pity those feminist activists.
Almost....
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