When women speak, they shouldn’t be shrill. Clothing must flatter, but short skirts are a no-no. After all, “sexuality scrambles the mind.” Women should look healthy and fit, with a “good haircut” and “manicured nails.”
No, this email has not been hijacked by 1956. These were just a few pieces of advice that around 30 female executives at Ernst & Young received at a training. It took place in 2018!
This week I wrote, in detail, about what women were told at this day-and-a-half seminar. Some of the most wild stuff was about their brains. Women were told their brains are 6%-11% smaller than men's brains. And that their brains are like pancakes, while men's brains are like waffles.
After we published our story, EY said it would stop offering the training and admitted that yes, it was, 'offensive.' That is something that EY did not concede to me prior to publication.
Then, just yesterday, EYs U.S. chair Kelly Grier sent out an email and a video about the whole fiasco. In it she said a lot of the things you'd expect -- 'mistakes have been made,' she wrote.
But one thing rang true. Grier said if she'd ever taken advice of the sort given in that training, she wouldn't have succeeded. “Had I heeded those aspects of the program, I can assure you that I would not be sitting here today as your U.S. chair,” she said in the video.
I've written a few pieces about EY before, specifically a complaint it's facing from one former partner who says she was sexually harassed and retaliated against when she worked there.
Before you read those pieces, you can start by getting more details from this latest article, which includes a masculine/feminine scoresheet women had to fill out before they attended.
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