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The Glass Ceiling Delusion:
the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions
Mike Buchanan’s The Glass Ceiling Delusion attacks head-on the militant feminist myth that men and women have the same interests and capabilities. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, he shows that the under-representation of women in senior positions in business has nothing to do with discrimination and ‘glass ceilings’, and that attempts to impose quotas are therefore fundamentally flawed. A polemical book with an important message.
Peter Saunders, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sussex University
The Glass Ceiling Delusion is an important and brave book, the best book on social economics and society in general published for decades. It’s irresistibly compelling, cogently argued and superbly put together. It should be in all school and college libraries. It should be compulsory reading for social science, economics and politics students. It should be force-fed to male and female politicians. This is definitely a five-star book. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
Dr Vernon Coleman bestselling English author
David and Goliatha:
David Cameron – Heir to Harman?
Mike Buchanan has courageously taken on the radical feminists. For too long this group has dominated the public policy agenda. Pay equality, gender balance in the boardroom, all women shortlists have been given far too much prominence in public life. We needed the other side to be put, and in his book Mike Buchanan does just this. His description of the Prime Minister having a ‘female-pattern brain’ is an interesting aspect of David Cameron. Without being insulting, it explains some of the current direction of Conservative policy.
The book calls for a fight back against the radical feminists. It deserves to succeed. Women had a long hard justifiable fight to obtain the vote in our democracy (see my book Our Fight for Democracy), but now they have it the radical feminists want special treatment. This is not acceptable, each person’s vote should have an equal value regardless of gender. Manipulating parliamentary candidate short lists to give preference to women is a distortion of democracy, and anyone who believes in democracy should oppose it.
John Strafford Chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy
FEMINISM
By Mike Buchanan
For LPS publishing (Lpspublishing.co.uk)
Citizen Carrington: The Sage of Bedford, Paul Carrington Aged 61¾
(scheduled for publication in 2012)
Feminism: The Ugly Truth
The Glass Ceiling Delusion:
the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions
David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman?
The Joy of Self-Publishing
Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded people
Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded Americans
The Fraud of the Rings
The Marriage Delusion: the fraud of the rings?
Two Men in a Car (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France)
Guitar Gods in Beds. (Bedfordshire: a heavenly county)
For Kogan Page (Koganpage.com)
Profitable Buying Strategies: How to Cut Procurement Costs
and Buy Your Way to Higher Profits
Other books available from LPS publishing
By Andrew Heslop
Music for Grown-ups
(scheduled for publication in 2012)
FEMINISM
The Ugly Truth
mike buchanan
lps publishing
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The sleep of reason breeds monsters.
Francisco de Goya 1746-1828 Spanish artist
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My first acknowledgements – as distinct from thanks – must go to the militant feminists who’ve driven me to write three books to date about their dire influence. One of the most dismal examples is the Labour MP Harriet Harman. If men were not so deferential towards women – and successive governments were not institutionally pro-feminist – she’d have been locked up years ago for the harm she and her kind inflicted upon British society over the term of the last Labour administration, 1997-2010. The Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition currently in power continues to pursue feminist agendas with some enthusiasm.
My thanks to all the writers whose books I cite in this one. Particular thanks must go to the writers of three highly insightful books which
