Swordsmyth
01-29-2019, 08:50 PM
Some experts are pointing to the #MeToo movement as an ultimately damaging one that is setting women back decades and stripping away the economic and social advances they’ve previously made.“A number of men have told me that they will avoid going to dinner with a female mentee, or that they’re concerned about deploying a woman solo on-site with a male,” female leadership expert Pat Milligan said at a Jan. 22 to 25 World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting) in Davos, Switzerland, The New York Times reported Sunday (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/world/europe/metoo-backlash-gender-equality-davos-men.html). “If we allow this to happen, it will set us back decades,” Milligan said.
Milligan (https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer/world-economic-forum-speakers-2017/patricia-a-milligan.html) is a Senior Partner and Global Leader of When Women Thrive Multinational Client Group (https://twitter.com/pat_milligan1).
“I now think twice about spending one-on-one time with a young female colleague,” an American finance executive said at the forum. The executive asked to remain anonymous, saying that the issue is “too sensitive” for him to speak freely.
The result of men feeling uncomfortable and refusing to work with women following the #MeToo movement (https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/flight-attendants-me-too-movement/) will result in a dearth of women entering leadership positions, according to Milligan. “Women have to be sponsored by leaders, and leaders are still mostly men,” she said, according to the NYT.
Women have already advanced leaps and bounds ahead in economic and social status, and the #MeToo has killed and continues to kill their progress, according to Milligan. “The business case for women had been made,” Milligan said, according to the NYT. “We were rocking it. And then #MeToo happened.”
The secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, Laura Liswood, echoed Milligan’s statements. “Basically, #MeToo has become a risk-management issue for men,” Liswood said.
Nearly half of male managers are not comfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, including mentoring and working or socializing alone with a woman,” according to a February 2018 report (https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results#key-finding-1). The percentage of male managers who are not comfortable mentoring a female employee has more than tripled, according to the report.
More at: https://truepundit.com/repercussions-of-metoo-movement-has-set-us-back-decades-says-female-leadership-expert/
Milligan (https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer/world-economic-forum-speakers-2017/patricia-a-milligan.html) is a Senior Partner and Global Leader of When Women Thrive Multinational Client Group (https://twitter.com/pat_milligan1).
“I now think twice about spending one-on-one time with a young female colleague,” an American finance executive said at the forum. The executive asked to remain anonymous, saying that the issue is “too sensitive” for him to speak freely.
The result of men feeling uncomfortable and refusing to work with women following the #MeToo movement (https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/flight-attendants-me-too-movement/) will result in a dearth of women entering leadership positions, according to Milligan. “Women have to be sponsored by leaders, and leaders are still mostly men,” she said, according to the NYT.
Women have already advanced leaps and bounds ahead in economic and social status, and the #MeToo has killed and continues to kill their progress, according to Milligan. “The business case for women had been made,” Milligan said, according to the NYT. “We were rocking it. And then #MeToo happened.”
The secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, Laura Liswood, echoed Milligan’s statements. “Basically, #MeToo has become a risk-management issue for men,” Liswood said.
Nearly half of male managers are not comfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, including mentoring and working or socializing alone with a woman,” according to a February 2018 report (https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results#key-finding-1). The percentage of male managers who are not comfortable mentoring a female employee has more than tripled, according to the report.
More at: https://truepundit.com/repercussions-of-metoo-movement-has-set-us-back-decades-says-female-leadership-expert/