My husband is in one of those jobs. He’s out the door at 7.30am, in a daily meeting by 7.45am, done with work at 5.30pm, but answering e-mails and taking calls until he goes to bed at 11pm. Weekends are fair game, too, and although he gets 5 weeks of vacation each year, actually finding a time when he can take days…

You know I like and believe in the premise of this article... But I struggle with using someone working 10-12 hours Monday-Friday and then a few hours each day on the weekends as the example of someone “just pretending to work too much and getting away with it.”

I’m in a tech related job that hires pretty 50/50 genderwise. It is amazing to see how women in my office only get recognized if they are nice/bubbly/fun, for “positive attitude”. I have seen female coworkers (myself included) repeat things over and over and get shut down, only for a guy to say the EXACT thing when he…

Old workplace of mine counted men standing around talking about sports and doing nothing productive as important workplace bonding. If our bosses saw two women talking, it was just assumed they were useless gossips and one of the under-bosses would be over in an instant to make sure they “got back to work”

Oh, goody. Someone’s Google Alert for “Jezebel + Rape” finally kicked in.

By the time they believe them they’re “too old.”

IME I find men really deft at self-hype, and easily believed. Example: when I came off training for my current job I noticed a gaggle of supervisors kind of fawning and over one of my fellow recent-ex-trainees regaling them with his experience with a customer. So I eavesdropped. “So I walked her thru a soft reset.” He…

In terms of society, and the constant state of vigilance women have to maintain, just to feel sort of safe? Yeah, we’re all potential rapists, asshole. That’s what guys like you don’t understand.

Wow, a gamer troll who has issues with women?

Well, you also have the fact that men aren’t automatically assumed to be doing something “for the kids.” I have a friend who splits his day between mornings at the office and working from home in the afternoon, something he explicitly does because he and his wife worked out a split schedule so they could balance…

Yeah... kinda hard to pull that “look at what a badass I am” schtick when you’re whimpering about Men’s Rights. Hard to reconcile, you know?

I’m always amazed/not surprised at how my tricks get to call anything they do “work.” Like they will pay me to come party with them on a “work trip” which is basically a lot of expensive food, drinking, cocaine, sex and maaaaaybe a 30 min phone call in the morning that is vaguely work related. and IT ALL COUNTS AS…

‘I have to work twice as hard to be taken half as seriously as men.’ Anita Hill

Ohhhh please they can’t even multatask

Why would a whiny MRA advocate for extermination of all males? Are you so insecure that you can’t handle the competition?

You don’t need an elite consulting job to find yourself in a situation where your employer expects you to work 60-90 hours a week and/or nights, weekends, and holidays and/or otherwise sacrifice home and family to work. In fact, many/most people at the opposite end of the spectrum find themselves in that position.

Yeah I quit a national consulting firm I worked at for three years because the boss (a woman) concluded that my 60-70 hour work weeks consisted mostly of me slacking, even though I was putting out more work than other members of the staff, and working with more clients. They even tried to not pay me vacation hours…