This comment caused controversy in the 1970s when Germane Greer postulated her thesis in The Female Eunuch. Most people think that when you are talking about harassment at work that you are talking about some bloke cornering you in a badly lit corridor and trying to cop a feel; that if you are talking about being discriminated against, you are talking about being sacked because you got pregnant. It does sometimes mean that. Often though these things are far more subtle. It as though men still don't like us very much, but have just got a bit cleverer at disguising it.
"In the 1970s when feminism was at its height, I never really understood what it was about" said one old boy over coffee. Stunned by the mind-numbing stupidity of that comment, it was as much as I could do to think to myself erm...equal pay, harassment in the work place, maternity leave...? Little things like that.
Some months later, the same old boy remarked causally "we don't want feminists here".
"In the 1970s when feminism was at its height, I never really understood what it was about" said one old boy over coffee. Stunned by the mind-numbing stupidity of that comment, it was as much as I could do to think to myself erm...equal pay, harassment in the work place, maternity leave...? Little things like that.
Some months later, the same old boy remarked causally "we don't want feminists here".
