Louise Mensch resigns...

[propercharlie]

too hard to balance famaily life :(

metabilis that is interesting. What are you in? I was in the financial sector in a risk based role with client facing aspects. I have worked for quite a few companies in that capacity both local to my home and in town and while the industry is inherently sexist the individual men do not have that type of sexism in their conversation - it's more to do with leering at girls and sniggering at strip clubs and stuff and the higher up director level types were generally pretty careful what they said full stop. Certainly the sexism was entrenched in the system so there was no need for it to be discussed - men didn't have to say to women that they shouldn't be there as over a certain level there were hardly any there and the ones who were there wouldn't take that kind of shit without saying something.

This sort of thing does vary widely between industries, so it would be good to know what you are in so I can warn my daughters!!! Sounds awful. Guessing trading / sales of some sort? They are the worst stories that I have heard.

She no doubt has a script in the pipeline about a female in politics and wants to pitch it to the USA !

Two years in post to do the research no doubt.

Haven't read the thread completely but saw someone compare her to Jessica Ennis. Really??? I would have liked to see her dedication to her chosen profession, a la Ms Ennis.
She was elected to represent a constituency. If she did not think it was compatible with her family life, she still ought to have fulfilled her promise and worked the next two years, then decided not to stand for re election.
Watch the space, she will be soon working on a much more profitable project. Hasn't she launched a software to rival twitter recently? The two years as an MP was to raise her profile and get a touch of gravitas to her chick lit milquetoast persona!

@Denise Yvonne Cooper seems to manage OK.

Sorry, Yvette. My brain is in meltdown after a hour speaking in German. My grasp of german is bobbins.

@Sardine I do not work in trading or sales. I'm in a traditional profession at director level.

So a doctor or a lawyer?

Can't be doctoring so I guess it's lawyering!

I'm not sure why you're being so cagey I doubt anyone will guess who you are from a simple "this is my field" comment!

There probably is enough money in managing Metallica to not need an MP's salary. Or maybe she thinks her twitter style website is going to take off .

The family reason is a bit lazy, IMO, though I'm glad she is going as I don't think she was very good.

@sardine Please stop trying to out me.

Is this the new feminism?

I know a really shitty industry which is simply awful to women.
Oh I am a woman and I have two daughters will you tell me what industry it is?
NO.

Thanks!

Oh sorry shouldn't assume you're a feminist!

But still.

Sardine, I wonder why you say "can't be doctoring"?
Plenty of raised eyebrows when I even me tion the needs of my children in the doctors' mess.

So still not one person can write about one thing she has done for Corby. Kind of makes my point for me. Average looking blonde gets a safe seat because she filled the quota and not up to the job.

I mean what kind of woman remarries without telling her children. A selfish one.

As for those writing she is young. She's over 40 and well into middle age. She should be able to stick at something for more than 2 years especially if you have sought and been given the peoples trust.

arf at Corby being a safe seat

IIRC the Tories recruited a few 'celebraTories', whom the complacent voters might identify with, at a time when the Labour Party were at an all time low - they were very clever and won over the electorate. I think a lot of habitual Labour voters went with the Lib Dems and the Green Party (i have no figures to quote, just a straw poll at the time between friends and family) so they snuck in via the back door.

Corby had been a Labour stronghold for (i think) 17 years before this

Isn't her majority less than 2000?

yup, and that accounts (probably) for the increased votes for 'other' parties

Corby is a marginal and tends to end up having voted for whoever comes to power. So Con at moment, prev Labour, earlier Con.

I wish out waste of space MP would resign. She has a majority of 300 over the previous, very well-respected Labour MP. The local electorate in this university constituency believed Lib Dem lies.

clemette because of the locations

NetworkGuy, are you Louise Mensch? In case you are, thank fuck you're out of here you talentless, inane, self publicising hump of meat Fucking work for a living like the rest of us.

And the director thing

Not pointing in that direction anyway

I honestly don't understand why not use the opportunity to share info about what sounds like an atrocious industry for women - even worse than mine which had a 40% pay gap not so long ago! Knowledge is power and all that but not if people won't share it with you!

Because some people are very protective of sharing too much on the internet. It is their prerogative.

I don't see that naming an entire industry / profession is going to out someone!

Unless it is "Queen" or similar!

I am happy to talk about my industry with anyone who is interested and tell them what roles are good, what qualifications you need, how it is for work/life, when the sexism kicks in and so on.

It just seems odd to say you work in an industry where men will quite openly say to women working at higher levels who have families that they are not capable of doing their job - which is pretty extreme - and then point blank refuse to say what industry it is! This is the sort of information that women and girls need - but if the people in the know won't share how are we ever going to get anywhere.