Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.
Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.
"A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC's Today programme.
"They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included."
because talking about people 'being white' is separate from Racism...
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:35 pm
by jonesthecurl
I always feel left out when people talk about sports too. Or guns. Or cars.
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:10 pm
by saxitoxin
If I said "I'd like to meat her" does that count as Meat or Sex?
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:13 pm
by saxitoxin
Anyway I voted sports. I work in a women-dominated office and the girls are always talking about soccer, particularly the middle aged mothers. It can make me and my fellow male co-workers feel left out as we know next to nothing about make-up, menstrual cycles, soap operas, soccer, and similar female-oriented topics.
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:01 pm
by NomadPatriot
every time I hear people in a workplace talking about Sexual Violence I just walk up and start clapping awkwardly
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:38 pm
by NomadPatriot
Meddling Busybodies Seek to Ban Office Banter
Re: Office sports talk is sexist
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:42 pm
by 2dimes
Talking about work during breaks. "I'm on break. Bugger off."
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:53 pm