February 11, 2011
Women. Don't you just love them. Guru certainly does, for even though it's a man's world (it wouldn't be nuthin' without a woman - as James Brown once said). And love them or hate them, you can't live without them. Or can you? Guru has just been handed a piece of research on women in social housing - the touchy-feely end of the property spectrum, where people are supposed to care about other people's needs, apparently, and then respond by giving them housing. So he naturally thought, what more womanly occupation could there possibly be? Aside from the obvious, oldest one, of course.
But how wrong he was.
Yes, Yours Truly read, the top earner in social housing is, indeed a woman. But it seems that most of the rest of the women are being held down under the glass ceiling - literally confined to the basement that is middle management and below. A paradox of epic proportions considering the number of women working in the sector.
But then as that ol' philosopher James Brown also said: man made the cars, the roads, the lights, the money, the toys... everything basically. And what do women make?
Guru chewed this over while preparing to dunk his digestive in the soon-to-arrive brew and came to the conclusion that women's work is never done - or, at least, it's never done by women. Except when it comes to making the tea that is...
Ever vigilant, Mrs Guru has just stomped out of the room having slung Yours Truly's cuppa at his head.
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