Is it me or do all corporate execs, just naturally hate anything that can get pregnant?
Toronto-based editor Lyndsay Kirkham overheard a conversation between two IBM execs during their work-lunch openly discussing why they don’t hire women- so she decided to live-tweet it, starting yet another online conversation over equality in the corporate workplace. And if the exec’s reasoning for why they hate hiring women wasn’t bad enough, apparently an older female executive joined in mid-way.
Check out the tweets here:
These IBM executives should have picked someone else to sit beside to have a working lunch focused on “why they don’t hire women”.
— Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
Apparently IBM doesn’t like hiring young women because they are ‘just going to get themselves pregnant again and again and again’. — Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
These executives are so comfortable in the sexism that they are openly sharing. Wow. My disbelief is tempering my anger. #IBM
— Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
They went on to say that they only look at “mature women” who aren’t likely to have kids. Absolutely awful. — Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
Not all “young women” are reproducing. Not all wmn who reproduce take time out. And: HOW THE FUCK ELSE DO YOU MAKE A NEW GENERATION?
— Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
I’m glad I overheard this. But, I now want to throw up (preferably on his really shiny shoes). — Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
Wait for it: an older woman has just joined the Misogyny Vortex.
— Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
I should stop trying to use computers or the interwebs. Because: uterus. Thanks to IBM for this tech lesson. — Lyndsay (@HisFeministMama) July 21, 2014
The problem here isn’t that women “have to” get pregnant, it’s the whole corporate culture in general. They tend not to value workers for anything other than output, especially the workers towards the bottom of the pyramid, men and women alike. When a company only concentrates on upward financial trends and squeezing every bit of efficiency and soul from the cubicles in their office buildings, some things get lost, like the fact that people have lives, families, and that women need to have babies if we want the human race to survive.
Because we can’t all work in the loving embrace of free food and personal well being at Google, there is only one answer: become an entrepreneur, grow your own startup, and break the cycle of corporate misogyny.
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