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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Karren Brady says she is remaining as chairman of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group out of
a “sense of duty” to her daughter and other employees. This would be entertaining if it
weren’t just another infuriating example of her blatant hypocrisy.

Brady got the role when barrister Lord Grabiner stepped down after being branded an “apogee
of weak corporate governance” following the doomed sale of BHS to Dominic Chappell.

Interestingly, the so-called “first lady of football” was very quick to join the chorus of
outrage about Harvey Weinstein allegations in her regular column in the Sun. She referred
to him as a “dirty old man” before warning: “There is a Harvey Weinstein in every industry -
the man at the top who abuses their power, who has no respect for women, who thinks women
owe him something.” How astute. And yet she has remained silent about the allegations concerning
Sir Philip Green’s conduct with female staff.

Brady could, of course, be launching an investigation into Arcadia’s workplace culture, or
overhauling its employee complaints procedure. But Brady, who has carefully cultivated her
glossy image as a champion for women in business and advertising her “Get What You Want”
podcast in which she tells women to be more assertive, has so far done neither.

By doing nothing she is effectively condoning misogyny while Arcadia employees have to work
at a company that stands accused of silencing victims of alleged harassment.






It's not the first time that she's hesitated to act. When asked why she didn’t take Alan Sugar
to task after he said that it was easier not to employ a woman than ask them if they planned to
have children, she said you “don’t go around going raaah having these massive confrontations”.
Well, perhaps a chairman who was prepared to confront Green was exactly what Arcadia needed.

It might be asking too much to expect her to tackle misogyny in the workplace. After all she
started her career with pornographers David Gold and David Sullivan, owners of West Ham football club.

But when Sunderland manager David Moyes told a female BBC reporter that she “might get a slap,
even though you’re a woman”, Brady wrote in her column: “It’s not OK to patronise, intimidate and
threaten women ... as if they are imposters in a man’s world.” Seven months later he became West Ham's manager.

When Jeremy Corbyn was accused of calling Theresa May a “stupid woman”, Brady wrote: “We have to make a
judgment about someone who claims to be against all forms of discrimination but is clearly a hypocrite.”


I agree.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...stic-feminism/

Always the same these people, only outraged until it might impact their own position