FIRMS need to crack down on sports chat in offices because it excludes women, a business leader has claimed. Debates about football and cricket often lead on to ‘laddish behaviour’ such as boasting about sexual conquests, said Chartered Management Institute boss Ann Francke. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. And sports journalist Jacqui Oatley told Today a crackdown was a ‘terrible idea’. I’ve worked in a place where the football talk would start and people would go from zero to ROWDY LADS BANTZ OI OI in the click of the fingers.

Source: Metro January 28, 2020 00:22 UTC