Ernst & Young now admits it should not have offered a women’s leadership training last year that was full of outdated and demeaning advice for women. The same day that HuffPost reported on the contents of the seminar, called Power-Presence-Purpose, the giant accounting firm distanced itself further from the program, which it had initially said was valued by some of its female executives. “There is no question that elements of the program included offensive content that is inconsistent with our core beliefs,” EY said in a statement it first provided to The Hill late on Monday, hours after HuffPost’s story had sparked widespread criticism. At the training in June 2018, women were told their brains were smaller than men’s, that they shouldn’t show skin in the workplace because “sexuality scrambles the mind,” and that they shouldn’t speak face to face with men because it’s perceived as aggressive.

Source: Huffington Post October 22, 2019 14:03 UTC