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Male managers are increasingly feeling uncomfortable when mentoring, working one-to-one with and socialising with women at work, according to research conducted in the US. More than half the men asked (60%) felt cautious with female with colleagues in these situations, a 33 percentage point increase over figure from last year. Senior male employees were, according to an analysis of the findings, 12 times more likely to be hesitant about one-to-one meetings with a less senior woman than they were a junior male colleague, nine times more likely to be reluctant to travel with a less senior female and six times more likely to be hesitant about attending a work dinner with a female than a male colleague.
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No surprise Sandberg would disagree but she is probably wrong.
In as litigous an environment as the US is, and with the inevitable trial by public opinion/social media, no wonder men are avoiding any situation where it could be claimed they had done something without a potential witness to dispute/verify what occurred.
So while the zealots were celebrating taking down some guy for something he said or did however minor, the rest of us were putting in place measures to ensure we couldn’t be accused of inpropriety.
Inevitable but entirely predictable.
The article is written with statistics that have no citation! “..according to research conducted in the US. Really? Which one? Where? How large was the sample?
“Sexual harassment was twice as likely to occur in organizations where men dominated the pool of senior executive”, said Rachel Thomas. Citation please? Or is this another lie?
“She disagreed with the idea that the #MeToo movement had negatively affected relationships between male and female colleagues, saying the campaigns had had an “overwhelmingly positive impact” on the workplace”. This is an outright lie! I demand she retract this lie with an apology!
“My suspicion is that a lot of good guys don’t realise that by not actively mentoring, sponsoring or creating full access, that they’re inadvertently part of the problem.” So, now we are guilty WITHOUT having done a crime!
Typical lies to further the narrative.