Yet another "hard-wired" argument - from UK chess expert

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www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11548840/Nigel-Short-Girls-just-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess.html

Nigel Short, one of the UK's greatest chess players claims women are hard-wired not to play the game well.

Love this little gem (not). "I don't have the slightest problem (he says) in acknowledging that my wife possesses a much higher degree of emotional intelligence than I do. Likewise, she doesn't feel embarrassed in asking me to manoeuvre the car out of our narrow garage."

Wrong Nigel love. You don't have emotional intelligence, not because you are a man, but because you spend half your life hunched over a board game instead of of interacting with the rest of the human race. Your wife is bad at getting the car out of the garage not because she is a woman but because she is a fucking awful driver.

I was at a seminar the other day Lurcio where they talked about some research that indicated that displaying images of women in senior positions may improve women's performance at work

I find it really great that the current head of scientific R&D where I work is a woman - she's really great to work with. It's also great to work somewhere where the CE is prepared to stand up in front of all his staff and say "We've finished the pay audit, yes, there is a gender pay gap, so we're working with the trade union to find the best strategy to fix it." (The gender pay gap is one of those historical legacies from long pay scales - this is why I get so pissed off with all the people who say "the gender pay gap is down to women choosing less well paid careers... yadda yadda" - there are a lot of organisations out there where women are paid less for doing the same work as men).

That's "great" in the sense of openly admitting it and being prepared to try to fix it, rather than deny, deny, cover-up, deny, ignore, constructive dismissal for anyone awkward enough to stand up and say "yes, there is a pay gap", which I've seen in a lot of workplaces. Obviously not great that there is a gender pay gap.

Our organisation says there's a pay gap and they are going to narrow it. On one hand it's good that the gap is recognised, but on the other hand you think - so in 10 years time you would still like to pay women a little bit less, eh?

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No, not wrong thread. Thread title did not coincide with subject posted.