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Relationships with a power differential are common in the US too. Women generally date up. This is especially common within professions with a high status sinc
by hbt 9y ago
Relationships with a power differential are common in the US too.
Women generally date up. This is especially common within professions with a high status since it is difficult to meet someone equal/better.
View https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/
People generally are poor at reading others and end up pushing too far or getting offended easily (not referring to this case)
What's more likely to happen is what has been highlighted in the "sex partition" - https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Office-Partition-Dividing-Workplace/dp/1493007947 https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Office-Partition-Dividing-Workpla...
Men are more likely to create more barriers to protect themselves and prevent bad optics rather than walk on egg shells around women. This in turn limits opportunities for women (aka glass ceiling).
- skywhopper 9y agoIf men feel the need to "walk on eggshells" to avoid offending women, then they're already in a bad place. Most men don't actually feel this way. If your first instinct in dealing with a woman at work is to make a sexual joke, or comment on your colleague's attractiveness, or to scheme about how you could convince her to date you, then _you_ are the problem, and you have problems, and you should do something about it. That is not normal or excusable behavior. As for "women generally date up", that is a near tautology given the imbalance in power generally between men and women. By the mere fact that men overwhelmingly hold positions of power, women will typically "date up". There is no way around that. So it's not a useful statistic and certainly isn't evidence of anything.