Wednesday, 12 June 2013

"Tell female staff when they've done a good blow job"

From The Daily Mail:

Readers and editors should tell women journalists how good they are to give them the confidence to rise to the top, a girls' school leader will say today.

Helen Fraser, head of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST), says talented female contributors need to be told 'directly and to their face how good they are' if their editors and readers want to keep them and get the most out of them.

In a speech at the trust's annual conference today, Mrs Fraser will tell heads and governors from its 26 schools and academies that the main problem for female writers is 'discouragement', rather than 'babies'.

The GDST CEO says women journalists currently suffer from 'two lost decades' between the ages of 30 and 50 when women are overtaken by men in the workplace, despite writing much better articles throughout their careers.

2 comments:

Tim Almond said...

and yet, all the evidence regarding women's success is that it is babies. That until the age of 30, they keep up, salary-wise with men, after that they fall behind.

JimS said...

I make no comment either way on Cristina Odone's work on her Telegraph blog but she certainly gets no encouragement from her respondents. Indeed I think she is being actively targeted for abuse.