The 21st century work place is literary a corporate jungle: short and simple!
If you are one of the lucky few that make up the less than 20 percent of people in the world with a paid employment either in the public or private sector then you would have noticed that the gender demographics is seriously tilting towards more female career advancement in the workplace.
Surprised? Don't be.
There are many empirical evidences to show why we are witnessing a stronger feminine presence in the corporate world ranging from the fact that more girls are enrolling into schools and staying through to graduation, organizations are implementing the affirmative action policy that keeps a fraction of the work space exclusively for females, a resilience on the part of some of these women to sacrifice many of those 'traditional' roles that competed with their time to develop their careers and lastly, the surreptitious use of the 'bottom power' to bulldoze their way to the top.
Now my interest is in the 'bottom power' premise. These days, I see young ladies, married and unmarried, not being discreet about having affairs with their superiors in order to gain favoritism and undue advantage in the office. No doubt, many of them have the qualification and even the competence to rise to the top on their own but since there is a lot of convenience in using the escalator than climbing a flight of stairs, many of them jostle to add 'bed warming' as an additional skill set to their curriculum vitae.
With more and more of them are knocking off men and taking over decision making positions which is commendable if you are a believer of the philosophy that says 'the end justifies the means', there will get to the time when women will form the majority of staff in the formal sectors of the economy. They will become a majority in the boardrooms, executive management and the general workforce while the men will have to gain relevance in the non-structured infomal sectors like entrepreneurship, agriculture and perhaps, baby sitting.
By then, those of us males who will have jobs in the formal sector will become prized possessions because our 'oga' madams at the top will need us a Personal Assistants (for home and abroad functions)and office spies to check on their scheming female surbodinates and help keep them in line.
By that time, lucky dudes like myself would enjoy the scene from above because we will also be on top of things...with our 'Oga Madam' at the top!
If you are one of the lucky few that make up the less than 20 percent of people in the world with a paid employment either in the public or private sector then you would have noticed that the gender demographics is seriously tilting towards more female career advancement in the workplace.
Surprised? Don't be.
There are many empirical evidences to show why we are witnessing a stronger feminine presence in the corporate world ranging from the fact that more girls are enrolling into schools and staying through to graduation, organizations are implementing the affirmative action policy that keeps a fraction of the work space exclusively for females, a resilience on the part of some of these women to sacrifice many of those 'traditional' roles that competed with their time to develop their careers and lastly, the surreptitious use of the 'bottom power' to bulldoze their way to the top.
Now my interest is in the 'bottom power' premise. These days, I see young ladies, married and unmarried, not being discreet about having affairs with their superiors in order to gain favoritism and undue advantage in the office. No doubt, many of them have the qualification and even the competence to rise to the top on their own but since there is a lot of convenience in using the escalator than climbing a flight of stairs, many of them jostle to add 'bed warming' as an additional skill set to their curriculum vitae.
With more and more of them are knocking off men and taking over decision making positions which is commendable if you are a believer of the philosophy that says 'the end justifies the means', there will get to the time when women will form the majority of staff in the formal sectors of the economy. They will become a majority in the boardrooms, executive management and the general workforce while the men will have to gain relevance in the non-structured infomal sectors like entrepreneurship, agriculture and perhaps, baby sitting.
By then, those of us males who will have jobs in the formal sector will become prized possessions because our 'oga' madams at the top will need us a Personal Assistants (for home and abroad functions)and office spies to check on their scheming female surbodinates and help keep them in line.
By that time, lucky dudes like myself would enjoy the scene from above because we will also be on top of things...with our 'Oga Madam' at the top!
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