Large Philip Morris Advert in WSJ Touts Gender Myths

Evildl17 · 2019-10-27T15:27:12+00:00

So what Phillip Morris is saying is that its Women behind one of the largest smear campaigns ever orchestrated against a rival industry and the lobbying push for unconstitutional legislation against the vaping industry.

Way to throw women under the bus dick heads.

andejoh · 2019-10-27T22:50:01+00:00

"Championing women’s equality at work leads to...
Better corporate performance and stability.
Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15% more likely to have financial returns above the median for their respective national industry. "

I wonder why they didn't just look at who had the highest average returns in the industry. There are two distinct strategies for retirement, the eat well and sleep well strategies. The eat well strategies tend to have more risk, but generate higher returns when successful. The sleep well strategies tend to more consistently produce a positive return, but generate a substantially lower return than the eat well strategies.

I've heard that there is a "gender tendency" where more men take an eat well approach and more women take a sleep well approach. Most strategists would argue for a mix and that probably supports their claim. Most strategists would advise younger workers to adopt a more eat well strategy and shoft to more of a sleep well strategy as they age.

I suspect this is why they look at the median instead of the extreme high earners, which I suspect is headed primarily by men. Most of the major IPOs are also managed over whelmingly run by men. Companies as essentially infants have book values that exceed that of companies that have been around for centuries.

Maybe that has something to do with it to. In industries where there is the potential for major growth maybe diversity is less an asset and more a liability, but in industries that are stable, a very aggressive eat well approach would be a disaster.

Something to consider.

Blutarg · 2019-10-27T15:24:12+00:00

Excellent work. I'll be on the look out for that "it's not a study" trick.

It's tricky. Increasing the supply of workers would bring down wages if demand were unchanged. And more paid citizens could raise demand.

xNOM · 2019-10-27T17:05:04+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrightslinks/comments/c9m5yl/socialabstract_women_directors_firm_performance/

menstruatrix · 2019-10-27T23:03:36+00:00

Several years ago an automated market analytics AI noted the correlation between a higher fraction of female employees in management and increased market performance.

Due to having greater freedom of choice in terms of work/life balance, women serve as a "canary in the coal mine" for poor management, workplace environment, and worker morale. A less visible and harder to measure indicator is that top-performing employees decide they don't have to put up with that shit, either, and jump ship as well. Essentially, companies that recognized employee achievements and contributions, promoted internally on the basis of merit and not office politics, and generally showed that they valued workers for their individual work tended to retain high performing employees and thus had better market performance. That this also cut down attrition of female employees, thus allowing qualified individuals to accumulate the work experience, et al.to be promoted into management, was a secondary effect, but much more visible and easy to measure.

But you had to pay the market research company to get that more detailed level of analysis of the observed correlation. Predictably, most of the news articles written about the AI generated synopsis didn't bother to spring for the detailed report, so a woozle was born that having women in management improves company performance.

So many companies have been working tirelessly to boost their numbers on this particular metric. Which is ironic, since promoting an employee based on the shape of their genitals would be the exact opposite of the sort of good management practices that actually underlies the original correlation. But markets are prone to fashion trends and data fetishism, so for a while pumping up your numbers would attract investors and your market performance would appear to confirm the woozle.

After a while those brittle gains shattered and, I think, currently the explanation is that the reason companies no longer experience the performance boost you're supposed to get by promoting employees on the basis of the shape of their genitals rather than their individual performance is that the people who were promoted on the basis of having a vagina are too young and inexperienced and that companies need to put EVEN MORE focus on promoting women over men at even the lowest levels to avoid this "pipeline failure".

It's kind of interesting to see how far this will go before it all comes crashing down.

alclarkey · 2019-10-30T13:43:38+00:00

What's more likely is that the growth preceded the hiring of the women, the growth enabled it.

Title	Large Philip Morris Advert in WSJ Touts Gender Myths
Author	Mens-Advocate
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Date	October 27, 2019 2:06 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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