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October 22, 2019 03:56 pm PDT

Ernst and Young subjected women employees to "training" about keeping the company's men happy

At the height of the #MeToo movement, giant management consulting firm Ersnt and Young (AKA "EY") sent a group of women to Power-Presence-Purpose, a "leadership and empowerment" workshop led by Marsha Clark, who advised them that "Womens brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup so its hard for them to focus" and "Mens brains are more like waffles. Theyre better able to focus because the information collects in each little waffle square."

The women in attendance were counselled on "not flaunting their bodies" lest they "scramble the minds" of their co-workers, and to be "polished" with a "good haircut, manicured nails, well-cut attire that complements your body type."

They were advised that women's communication styles were a problem in business, because they both "speak briefly" and "often ramble and miss the point" while their male colleagues "speak at length because he really believes in his idea."

Marsha Clark, who led the workshop, was an exec at Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s. She is an advocate of the junk-science Myers-Briggs test, and is continuing to work with EY (though she is no longer delivering PPP in the same form).

An attendee at one of Clark's PPP workshops at EY last year says that Clark spent part of the time advising the women in attendance that their brains were smaller than men's.

A 55-slide leaked to the Huffington Post, who asked Harvard Business School's Robin Ely, who studies gender and the workplace, to evaluate the claims in the deck about biology, psychology and best business practices. Read the rest


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