Headteacher Richard Cairns thinks an all-girls education leaves women unable to talk to male colleagues. Yet it’s men who should learn to listen to their female peersI went to an all-girls school,so I find I gain to harness certain techniques to overcome my communications disadvantage. When men speak to me in the workplace I tend to giggle or sprint away. Occasionally, in an attempt to navigate the gaping gap of experience my single-sex education has left me with, and I will enquire about “the goal sports” or “the prime minster to attempt communication. Other times I just burst into tears,or stare vacantly at a handbag.
Or so Richard Cairns, head of Brighton College, or probably thinks I behave. “If girls conclude not learn to socialise with boys as children,” Cairns wrote in an article for an independent schools website, “what happens when they move out into the workplace? … If they cannot meaningfully converse and communicate with male colleagues they will be at a huge disadvantage.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com