http://www.grogancoaching.com/2009/01/tipping-the-balance/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://www.grogancoaching.com/2009/01/tipping-the-balance/#comment-8 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:55:00 +0000 http://grogancoaching.com/?p=14#comment-8 Kathy M. – Thanks for your note. Bias and prejudice can live deep underground, so I appreciated the chance to examine my own conscious and unconscious thoughts and judgements. I am satisfied that I did not intend any generalized slam against women, and my collection of posts seems to bear this out. For what it’s worth, and just to give you a chance to examine your own prejudices, I live in the midwest but spent most of my life in the Northeast. And my own religious beliefs and practices are pretty eclectic. Few who know me would characterize me as “Christian right.” All that said, I join you in deploring the very real problem of gender-based pay gaps. In one of my first jobs out of college I remember an executive laying off a woman instead of a man because “his family depended on his paycheck.” Unfortunately, this attitude is still with us. Thanks for reading and writing!
Mike Grogan

]]> http://www.grogancoaching.com/2009/01/tipping-the-balance/#comment-7 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:13:00 +0000 http://grogancoaching.com/?p=14#comment-7 Although your comments can ring true from a certain perspective, it was hard for me to read past the first few lines. I was immediately offended by your mid-west and Christian right shift from what started out as a gender-neutral article (“the employee’s value”) to a mid-west slam on women (“than her salary” and “replace her.”) The pronoun use almost appears deliberate. Perhaps Fox News did not report on the gaps in pay between men and women? I think the beginning of your article encourages pay gaps. I would bet that 9 times out of 10 your clients replace the “hers” with “hims,” no matter if they are assets or liabilities.

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