Smart Recruitment Pays Off

Posted by on Jul 29, 2009 in gender, learning | 0 comments

I have to share with you a story that I think is one of the most innovative and optimistic I’ve heard in a while.  And I won’t take too long doing it.  Promise. It’s about a firm that wants staff  with autism.  Yes, you read me right.  “A computer company in Denmark… has made huge strides in employing workers with autism.  [It] is expecting to begin work in...

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Why Are Men Such Fat, Stupid Wasters? #2

Posted by on Jul 13, 2009 in gender, series | 0 comments

My last blog was quite sore on those of my own sex who mope, whinge and generally waste their lives. Now its time to explain why they might be like this. Behold – the glory that is sexual equality on the BBC! Good for…what?  Would the world be a better place without men? Scientists claim to have grown human sperm in a lab, and columnists and bloggers are musing on the possibility of...

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Why Are Men Such Fat, Stupid Wasters? #1

Posted by on Jul 10, 2009 in assertiveness, gender, personal development, series | 0 comments

It was my dad that started me thinking about gender issues.  The Simpsons was on.  Homer did something stupid.  Everyone laughed – except dad. “What wrong, dad?  Don’t you find it funny?” I was waiting for some sentimental, ‘things were funnier in the good old days’ type response.  Instead I got this. “Why are men always portrayed in such a negative...

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Boys, Biology and Bias

Posted by on Jun 29, 2009 in education, gender | 0 comments

Do yo know where the heart is located?  Yes?  What about the kidneys?  Kind of…  And the pancreas?  The what? New research has shown that basic anatomy ‘baffles Britons’.  Take the test to find out how ignorant you are .  (I got the first two right.) At school, I hated biology.  It was a subject for girls, unless you wanted to ‘do medicine’ (which no-one in...

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