There are a lot of men who don’t like the rat race. A lot of women are deciding they don’t like it, either. Maybe there’s something to the motherhood thing. From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickson.substack.com:
Voluntarily. They don’t like it. It doesn’t like them right back.
Why? Why? WHY? cry the usual suspects. Patriarchy! Sexism! Evil Patriarchal Capitalist Sexism! Corporations must do more!
Bloomberg reported last week that the inclusion of women in the C-suite had stalled this past year, and so did that ghastly predatory outfit McKinsey, which partnered with former Facebooker, Sheryl Sandberg’s equally grisly Lean In operation. They claimed women have lost a decade of progress in just one calendar year. Which is a feat, admit.
Maybe because the aggressive promotion of women isn’t working out for corporate America? Because no program that isn’t bearing fruit lasts when you have to explain lower corporate profits to angry shareholders.
Maybe it isn’t working out for women either?
Digging into these reports, it seems the problem is that no one wants to mentor young women, as seniors traditionally have done for young men. No one seems to want to promote women as equally as they do men. Also women don’t want to “work as hard”. They aren’t “as ambitious” as men.
Also women do twice as much uncompensated labor as men, taking on the great majority of household chores, and, as well, are expected to organize the Christmas party. Not me, I might add — on a personal note. I cook. He does everything else.(editors note)
This means they are over-burdened and resentful and they are quitting. Four hundred thousand women left the workforce in 2025, putting down their tools and refusing to spend their lives working for “the man”.
The reports and accompanying ‘analyses’ in the mainstream cry that government and corporations should do more! More of other people’s money chasing a fruitless dream that goes against human nature and sets sex against sex, turns family dynamics into a conflict zone, and takes away yet another chunk of private life to be traded on the market.
