It’s time to speed it up cause I can’t move at this pace.
Workplace consultancy firm The Dream Collective have found that 48% of white collar professional men surveyed feel fatigued by the notion of gender equality. 52% feel that women are favoured for jobs and promotions on the basis of their gender. I just, like, paused for 7 minutes because I can’t even begin to process how irate this makes me. I’m aware that I’m not a white collar professional, I have a quite nice blue collar, but I work in one of the most testosterone fuelled dick swinging environments outside of the NRL, and I’m fucking fatigued, too. I’m tired of derivative gender diversity initiatives aimed at improving women. Women make up 25% of the organisation I belong to and 10% of the trade I belong to. It doesn’t matter how brilliant we are, and let’s be real, we are fucking brilliant, we cannot continue to be the only demographic responsible for driving culture change. We can’t mentor women out of this problem, because, and this bit is important – women are not th...