While this wouldn't be hugely surprising, the lunch attendees weren't the board of the insurer. They were (I guess) the senior sales & marketing teams of the insurer, plus the senior bodies from the brokers. Surely given this audience, you'd expect to have a spattering of female attendees?DrMoriarty said:My wife worked in AIB for a number of years and found it very much 'girls downstairs' (behind the counters/dealing with the public), 'boys only' upstairs in the corridors of power...
You sure have a way with collective nouns, RainyDay!RainyDay said:...a spattering of female attendees?
Do you have the equivalent figure for men handy?extopia said:but according to Revenue Statistics there are only 1500 women in Ireland earning over 100k.
extopia said:Hey Rainyday it's a good question.
I think it should be answered by the AAM women. Financial Services is a lucrative career option but according to Revenue Statistics there are only 1500 women in Ireland earning over 100k. It shows that we have a long way to go yet.
RainyDay said:I shared a restaurant with a lunch for 25-30 hosted by the Irish office of one of the leading insurers. From the bits of the speeches I could pick up, it was a 'thanks for your business during this very good year' lunch for their brokers.
daveirl said:And I bet that many of those 1,500 don't have kids. To be honest I don't think this will ever change, if I took a year out of my job between the ages of 30 and 40 I'd expect it would have a severe impact on my progress within the company. This is exactly what happens when a woman has a child. Extremely unfortunate but I can't see a viable solution.
CCOVICH said:I think that male personalities are better suited to occupations like broking and dealing in financial services. No empirical evidence, just my own (informed) opinion.
Diversity is important for all workplaces. A workplace where unpaid overtime is constantly expected is not a very healthy environment for anyone. A workplace full of no-kid parents walking all over each other to climb the corporate ladder will almost certainly burn out a significant percentage of the staff. Parenting brings with it a certain maturity and outlook on life which is important in taking the big picture view.podgerodge said:I don't agree that it's extremely unfortunate. Having a child is a choice. Why shouldn't the women who choose career over kids earn more money? why shouldn't the men who stay late in the office while the working mothers go home early earn more money? My wife has done better than she would have if she took time out to have children. So she earns more than women who spend half their time working and the other half thinking about the kids.
So she earns more than women who spend half their time working and the other half thinking about the kids.
extopia said:Just be aware that some people would say that a set of beliefs with no empirical evidence behind them amounts to prejudice.
RainyDay said:They were (I guess) the senior sales & marketing teams of the insurer, plus the senior bodies from the brokers. Surely given this audience, you'd expect to have a spattering of female attendees?
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