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Date de parution | 01 février 2012 |
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FEMINISM
The Ugly Truth
Mike Buchanan
LPS publishing
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The Glass Ceiling Delusion:
the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions
Mike Buchanan’s The Glass Ceiling Delusion attacks head-on the militant feminist myth that men and women have the same interests and capabilities. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, Mike Buchanan shows that the under-representation of women in senior positions in business has nothing to do with discrimination and ‘glass ceilings’, and that attempts to impose quotas are therefore fundamentally flawed. A polemical book with an important message.
Peter Saunders Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sussex University
At long last, someone has taken on the myth of discrimination against women who aspire to senior positions in business, including the boardrooms of major corporations. The Glass Ceiling Delusion demythologizes each of thirty elements the author has identified of the now generally accepted claim that women are discriminated against in the world of white-collar work. Much has been accomplished recently in disclosing the half-truths about women and domestic violence, for example, but Buchanan illuminates an area that other critics of ideological feminism have not considered.
Buchanan’s analysis is based partly on his experience of working as an executive for major British and American multinational corporations for over 30 years until 2010. His book should inspire research on settings of corporate power everywhere. Always witty and sometimes even biting in style, Buchanan’s text is grounded in important texts in psychobiology, sociology, history and politics. It is an impassioned yet not angry argument that deserves the careful attention of policy-makers and a general readership.
Professor Miles Groth PhD Editor, New Male Studies: An International Journal
Equality of opportunity is a fine thing but equality of outcome is another matter entirely. There is little doubt that men and women have, on average, different talents and interests that make gender quotas in the workplace unfair and impractical.
The Glass Ceiling Delusion is a welcome, well-argued addition to the debate about whether women should be pushed up the social ladder just because they are women, and thus at a presumed disadvantage. This is rather an insult to women and Margaret Thatcher, for one, would not have agreed. Individuals should be treated as individuals, not as members of a particular race, class or gender. Whatever the historic injustices, this is the only way that social structures can evolve naturally.
Glenn Wilson Visiting Professor of Psychology, Gresham College, London
The Glass Ceiling Delusion is an important and brave book, the best book on social economics and society in general published for decades. It’s irresistibly compelling, cogently argued and superbly put together. It should be in all our school and college libraries. It should be compulsory reading for social science, economics and politics students. It should be force-fed to male and female politicians. This is definitely a five-star book.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
Dr Vernon Coleman bestselling English author
David and Goliatha:
David Cameron – Heir to Harman?
Mike Buchanan has courageously taken on the radical feminists. For too long this group has dominated the public policy agenda. Pay equality, gender balance in the boardroom, all women shortlists have been given far too much prominence in public life. We needed the other side to be put, and in his book Mike Buchanan does just this. His description of the Prime Minister having a ‘female-pattern brain’ is an interesting aspect of David Cameron. Without being insulting, it explains some of the current direction of Conservative policy.
The book calls for a fight back against the radical feminists. It deserves to succeed. Women had a long hard justifiable fight to obtain the vote in our democracy (see my book Our Fight for Democracy ), but now they have it the radical feminists want special treatment. This is not acceptable, each person’s vote should have an equal value regardless of gender. Manipulating parliamentary candidate short lists to give preference to women is a distortion of democracy, and anyone who believes in democracy should oppose it.
John Strafford Chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy
(Note: David and Goliatha is out of print, although second-hand copies are sometimes available to buy. All the content of the book – and a good deal more – is contained in The Glass Ceiling Delusion .)
By Mike Buchanan:
For LPS publishing
2015 General Election Manifesto
Feminism: The Ugly Truth
The Glass Ceiling Delusion:
The real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions
David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman?
The Joy of Self-Publishing
Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded people
The Marriage Delusion: the fraud of the rings?
Two Men in a Car (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France)
Guitar Gods in Beds. (Bedfordshire, a heavenly county)
For Kogan Page
Profitable Buying Strategies: How to Cut Procurement Costs and Buy Your Way to Higher Profits
The sleep of reason breeds monsters.
Francisco de Goya 1746-1828 Spanish artist
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION (2012 ebook edition)
1| FEMINISTS ARE LIARS
2| THE WORLD MUST BE CHANGED, APPARENTLY
3| ARE YOU A MISOGYNIST IF YOU ONLY HATE FEMINISTS?
4| WHAT IS FEMINISM IN THE MODERN ERA?
5| MISANDRY (THE HATRED OF MEN)
6| HOW FEMINISTS VIEW THE WORLD: WELCOME TO THE GRIM WORLD OF DUALISM
7| WHY MEN HAVE NIPPLES, AND MY SEX CHANGE STORY
8| ARE FEMINISTS LESS INTELLIGENT THAN NORMAL WOMEN?
9| WHY ARE FAT WOMEN FAT?
10| ARE FEMINISTS LESS ATTRACTIVE THAN NORMAL WOMEN?
11| DO FEMINISTS SUFFER FROM PPS (PERMANENT PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME)?
12| FEMINISM: THE TRIUMPH OF EMOTION OVER REASON?
13| THE DIFFERENT NATURES OF MEN AND WOMEN
14| THE DENIAL OF THE DIFFERENT NATURES OF MEN AND WOMEN
15| FEMININITY
16| FEMINIST THEORY: BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR
17| FEMINIST ACADEMICS AND MANGINAS
18| BIG FAT FEMINIST MYTHS AND LIES: FEMALE SOLIDARITY AND FEMINIST REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN
19| ARE FEMINISTS DELUSIONAL? IS THE POPE A CATHOLIC? DO BEARS CRAP IN WOODS?
20| THE EVOLUTION OF NAGGING
21| WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN, BUT DO FEMINISTS ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE?
22| ARE FEMINISTS DEPRESSED, AS WELL AS DEPRESSING?
23| POLITICS AND FEMINISM: AN EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE
24| WHY DO LEFTIES NEVER LEARN?
25| SHOULD WE TREAT FEMINISTS AS WE TREAT OTHER DIFFICULT PEOPLE?
26| WHY IS FRANCE ALMOST A FEMINIST-FREE COUNTRY?
27| ARE SOME FEMINISTS (E.G. TRACEY EMIN) A PAIN IN THE ARTS?
28| DOES HARRIET HARMAN SUFFER FROM MAD COW DISEASE?
29| CAUTION: WOMEN AT WORK
30| HOW FEMINISTS ARE KILLING MEN AND WOMEN
31| THE FEMINISATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
32| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON MEN
33| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON WOMEN
34| THE LESBIAN FEMINIST ASSAULT ON HETEROSEXUALITY
35| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON MARRIAGE
36| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
37| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON CAPITALISM
38| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY
39| THE FEMINIST ASSAULT ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
40| EQUALITY, HAPPINESS, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
41| MEN’S DEFERENCE TOWARDS WOMEN
42| WERE THE SUFFRAGETTES SILLY?
43| WOULD PATRIARCHAL HEGEMONY BE SUCH A BAD THING?
44| THE DREADED ‘C’ WORD
45| THE DREADED ‘S’ WORD
46| THE DREADED ‘F’ WORD
47| THE VILIFICATION OF MEN
48| THE SELF-GLORIFICATION OF WOMEN, AND THE TROOP NUMBERS PROBLEM
49| DO FEMINISTS SUFFER FROM PENIS ENVY?
50| WHY AREN’T MEN REVOLTING?
51| THE DIRE STATE OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
52| THE DIRE STATE OF MODERN PUBLISHING
53| POLITICIANS ARE IMPOTENT
54| LADIES, WHAT DO YOU WANT? HAPPINESS OR POWER?
55| WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM, HONEY BADGERS
56| ARE YOU A FEMINIST OR A POST-FEMINIST? A GUIDE
57| THE TEN CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX 1| QUOTATIONS
APPENDIX 2| THE LETTER TO THE RT HON THERESA MAY MP
APPENDIX 3| IF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR HAD BEEN FOUGHT IN A POLITICALLY CORRECT AGE…
APPENDIX 4| THE LETTER TO THE RT HON DAVID MILIBAND MP
APPENDIX 5| INTRODUCTION TO THE J4MB GENERAL ELECTION MANIFESTO (2015)
APPENDIX 6| ABOUT MIKE BUCHANAN
APPENDIX 7| THE MEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT, A VOICE FOR MEN, FEMINISM, GY