Never mention a boyfriend around Boss 4, or he’ll think you’re one step away from maternity leave and he’ll take you off management track. Make sure to mention a boyfriend around Boss 5 – invent one if you must – or you’ll be the latest girl to find herself receiving unsolicited love letters in the internal mail from a florid baby boomer. In that particular job, each girl who received these successive declarations of “devotion” has now quit the industry.
A new YouTube and podcast series, launched this week with the emotive title White Men Can’t Work!, promises to speak for the 46 per cent of men who now censor jokes in the workplace, or the 41 per cent who suffer anxiety that “as a white man” they could be sacked over “doing or saying the wrong thing”. That’s according to polling commissioned for the series.
Welcome boys, and join the club! For as long as women have been in the labour force – as long as there has been labour – women have had to negotiate male pride, male prejudice and male priapism.
Five years since the murder of George Floyd, and the mushrooming expansion of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, it is clear that many workplaces rushed to pay lip service to a new left-wing orthodoxy. Yet the same global corporations rushed to abolish their DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programmes within days of the election of Donald Trump, which demonstrates just how superficial that commitment was.
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The people behind White Men Can’t Work! had pollsters JL Partners interview 823 white men to come up with their stats. Their press bonanza makes no mention of similar surveys polling much larger numbers of women.
Look at a survey on a much larger scale and the picture gets more depressing. Last year’s McKinsey Women In the Workplace Survey spoke to 15,000 people about their careers; over the last decade it has surveyed 480,000 people about their workplaces. Even if the current rates of increased participation are sustained, they project that it will take 22 years for white women to achieve gender parity with white men in the workplace, and 48 years for women of colour.
Yet every commercial industry remains overwhelmingly led by white men. If young white men feel the odds are stacked against them, we should be asking who is feeding them this lie.
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