Can Women Succeed? - The Trouble With Working Women - BBC Two

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The first of two provocative programmes presented by newsreader and mum-of-three Sophie Raworth, and reporter and father-of-three Justin Rowlatt.

In a competitive mood from the off, Justin and Sophie explore the thorny issue of what we really think of women at work. Why is it that men still dominate the top jobs? Can women have it all? Has gender equality gone too far? And what - if anything - is holding women back?

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[ShaktipatSeer2]

yuck what awful women... you guys are so fucking clueless.. all you need is the love of a good man but you'll never get it because your repulsive to real men

[shmiggen]

Men are not oppressing women. It's women who oppress women. Studies have shown that women do not like to work for other women, they are much happier when working for a man. This makes perfect sense. Women want to be the objects of desire, so when they get together they become catty and jealous. This is why men are at the very top - women want them there.

[rognogify]

What a load of papp! when i think of my manager, I think of my manager. not a man! My manager is a woman just now and the best manager I ever had was also a woman! and also the worst manager I have had was a woman!

[djw11111]

Why is it important that men and women are equally represented in boardrooms? Why is it not important that men and women are equally represented in prisons or manual labour?

Isn't it because it's nothing to do with equality and everything to do with feminism?

[victorsvoice]

@rustyscrapper They sure do take offence. Tell them that 50% of the military deaths should be women, since that would be "equality" afterall and watch them go and get a kitchen knife.

[TheLordmep]

Let us do everything in our power to bring down the glass ceiling, but that glass cellar could use a nice little polish.

[LadyRuin2012]

Working is stressful enough. Working and managing a family? I can't imagine! Still, if you're going to make the decision to juggle two lives, don't expect your male and childless female coworkers to cover for you.

[SLYPA007]

looking at the progress since the 1970, this rate will mean that we need another 60 years to truly be equal?

[Hzqi]

@MMMisterDNA

They've actually exploited their freedom to form women-only companies before, and the articles written about it have been hilarious. Some of the chemistry rang like an environement deprived of men to blame, petition to task, mediate the fracases and even a male boss that would lay down a law of function (this female boss had major conflict aversion).

Chapin will know which one I refer to. I'll ask him.

[Hzqi]

@memilybaldwin

Ironically, the only time the "game" is "designed" for anyone designated by gender, is when they start rigging it to usher more women into the workforces. Only the cozy ones however. These liberated ladies seem none to enthusiastic about equality down the mine-shaft.

The workforce of today, is derived of a trend that derives of a time when women didn't consider wanting to participate in the workforce, because of how much of it was horrible work. In come the offices. WE WANT!