“We know she’ll be good because she’d have to be at least 10% better than a man to have got that job.”
That comment ought to have stayed in the 19th or at best early to mid 20th century.
Unfortunately it was made in the 21st – just a couple of weeks ago.
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It’s vaguely familiar but I can’t recall who said it. It doesn’t come up in Google either.
So who was it then, and what were the circumstances?
🙂
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Someone may well have been reported saying this or something similar, Mike.
But what I wrote above was from a private conversation I overheard and therefore I’m not going to name the participants.
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I didn’t realise you were quoting from a private conversation Ele. I thought you’d left a link out to a story where someone said that.
🙂
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Ah – yes, I see how you could have thought that. It wasn’t clear where it came from.
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