At a work conference

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I am at a work conference for leadership in my firm. I happened to note that our Birmingham office (the leadership team in Brum seemed to consist of 14 white men) had brought no women along. I wasn't equal to the why all white discussion so I focused on the why no women discussion.

I am genuinely very tired of hearing a bunch of overweight white men explaining that no, they do promote women. It just so happens that they have never in living memory ever promoted any.

I cannot tell you how tired I am of this nonsense. Where does it end?

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... Your firm is not alone!

I sympathise. I am also very tired of this. And very angry. And usually it's men who said they can't see a problem. Haha. What a surprise.

We really need a jaded emoticon.

Ugh, I feel your pain.
I have just been travelling for work and I got so tired of having to work really hard to send cues to get the respect that I needed - not at my workplace which is filled with powerful women, hurray - but all the infrastructure is set up and managed by people who suck up to men and think women can wait and don't need anything made easy for them. I was so busy, so tired, and being overlooked all the time by people who should have been doing stuff for me

Well they would promote women, if women wanted the jobs, but of course the talented women are now looking for family-friendly positions, and indeed who could blame them, when it's so hard to manage the demands of being a big fat leader which is all consuming with the fact someone's got to take the kiddies to football...

It's just pish.

We had a women in leadership thing in my company.

In my region, there is only one female general manager out of 23. There is 1 regional level manager out of 12.

Women in leadership, oh! How we laughed!

I really was outspoken about it. They refused to see that there was a clear problem. Just fed up of accepting pretty lame excuses, tbh.

Well done for speaking up.

Women in leadership. Ha. Again, to quote/misquote Gandhi, "that would be a very good thing".