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"if you want something done well, hire a working mother".

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Said by Maia Dunphy in the Irish Times this weekend.

Surely a very unfair statement. Could you imagine if someone said, in a national newspaper 'If you want something done well, hire a man/single woman'.

I've worked with lots of great and talented people and they cover the entire range: women, men, parents, non parents, older people, younger people.

Just wondering if anyone agrees with her.

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Neyite

Yeah, the hard-work ethic is automatically bestowed along with the child benefit and the park-anywhere blinky lights on our Dragon Wagons for us mothers. :pac:

Fr_Dougal

I’m not quite sure what I’m outraged about, but it’s worse than hitler.

Birneybau

Who cares what she has to say. We give mediocrity too much exposure in this country. Sharp elbows are all you need to get far.

Yer wan Maia Dunphy, Simon Delaney, Deirdre O' Kane. FFS

Chinasea

Another kick in the teeth for women who can't have or have lost a child. Cope the eff on.

These women who have babies and start making out they are superwoman and are astounded at their life changing experience etc.

PS: The world is over populated.

Hurrache

Hurrache wrote: »

Did the boardsies from back then get their knickers in a twist, or is it just a new thing?

Ah, probably not...

freshpopcorn wrote: »

She's allowed to make statement like this because she's a feminists!

freshpopcorn

She's allowed to make statement like this because she's a feminists!

Shenshen

Ryland Prehistoric Jigsaw wrote: »

Said by Maia Dunphy in the Irish Times this weekend.

Surely a very unfair statement. Could you imagine if someone said, in a national newspaper 'If you want something done well, hire a man/single woman'.

I've worked with lots of great and talented people and they cover the entire range: women, men, parents, non parents, older people, younger people.

Just wondering if anyone agrees with her.

I wonder if it's a play on the quote "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.", attributed to Bill Gates?

If it is, I get that's she's trying to imply that someone managing a busy, multi-faceted life might fit that description, too, but I'm not entirely sure if that is a fair assumption to make about all working mothers.
Some of them, certainly, but I've seen some proper headcases, too, in my time.

Hurrache

She didn't come up with that phrase, I heard it a long time ago. A cursory google even brings up another columnist that wrote about it 2 years ago, and an article from 2014 citing a study that found the same for a specific profession.

Did the boardsies from back then get their knickers in a twist, or is it just a new thing?

Surreptitious

She's trying to stay relevant. She is always hogging the media.

Odhinn

Ryland Prehistoric Jigsaw wrote: »

Said by Maia Dunphy in the Irish Times this weekend.

Surely a very unfair statement. Could you imagine if someone said, in a national newspaper 'If you want something done well, hire a man/single woman'.

I've worked with lots of great and talented people and they cover the entire range: women, men, parents, non parents, older people, younger people.

Just wondering if anyone agrees with her.

I suppose every now and again they have to fill space and nobody can come up with a decent article to throw in.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

I've seen working mothers are absolutely astounding at their jobs, great at time management and getting projects done all while working reduced hours.

I've also seen working mothers who are absolutely terrible at their jobs and are barely capable of getting anything done.

Yes, that's what I thought. 'Working mothers' aren't some homogenous group in the workplace. Some of them are hard working, talented, super organised or whatever. Some of them are just average and get by. And some of them are useless and lazy. Just like the rest of the population.

L.Jenkins

somesoldiers wrote: »

I hear she gave Johnny Vegas the Spanish Archer recently

Last year apparently. Had to Google her.

Raging_Ninja

I've seen working mothers who are absolutely astounding at their jobs, great at time management and getting projects done all while working reduced hours.

I've also seen working mothers who are absolutely terrible at their jobs and are barely capable of getting anything done.

somesoldiers

I hear she gave Johnny Vegas the Spanish Archer recently

Boom_Bap

who?