After the sacking of Sky Sports presenter for sexism I'm interested to know if people have encountered sexism at work. I have and can't imagine I'm alone. However I've never spoken out about it. My bosses boss regularly 'jokes' about not employing women of chil bearing age. My previous boss threatened to remove flex time privileges of I did not commit to working til a certain time which I couldn't do as I was unsure about childcare arrangements. Didn't threaten the men with this even though they didn't want to commit either. I've also been asked if I was planning children in a job interview. A colleague of mine takes her wedding ring off in interviews so they won't think shes about to have kids (not sure if she's being a bit irrational but pretty certain no men feel the need to do this).
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