We have achieved equality…
Apparently, according to Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of M&S.
"Women can get to the top of any single job that they want to in the UK," he told the Observer newspaper.
Sir Stuart also rejected the suggestion that having children can damage the careers of working mothers, saying he knows many who are successful.
He said: "Apart from the fact that you’ve got more equality than you ever can deal with, the fact of the matter is that you’ve got real democracy and there are really no glass ceilings, despite the fact that some of you moan about it all the time.
"Women can get to the top of any single job that they want to in the UK. You’ve got a woman fighter pilot who went in to join the Red Arrows yesterday."
He told the newspaper: "I mean, what else do you want to do, for God’s sake? Women astronauts. Women miners. Women dentists. Women doctors. Women managing directors. What is it you haven’t got?"
I’d like a life where I’m not afraid of male violence, a life where I have genuine equality not something a man hands to me on a plate and tells me is equal. This man is so entrenched in his white male privilege he has no idea what he is really saying. "Hey uppity women, I’ve given you jobs and something that looks like equality, will you quit threatening my precious patriarchy now?"
No. Not going to happen. Yes, some individual women can achieve those positions within the male world and I celebrate that they are able to do so. But those choices are not open to most of us still and those that pursue them can only do so by becoming more male than the men in many cases. You still make us play by your rules and with your tools and strategies.
