![]() When the power balance is more equal and both are married, it is still the woman’s career and reputation that disproportionately suffers. Even when the participants in a workplace relationship are both single, it is usually the woman who must give up her job. This seems even more unfair when you consider the usual power imbalance between an often older and more senior man and the younger employee with whom he becomes involved. Yet we save special condemnation for her. He is the betrayer, the faithless one, the breaker of promises. After all, she made no vows, she did not promise before God or the law to cleave only to anyone. I have never understood why the woman who gets involved with a married man comes in for so much more vitriol than he does, especially if she is single. Apparently this was because she’d once had a relationship with a married man. When Julia Gillard was PM I received some bizarre tweets calling the never-married Gillard a whore and a home-wrecker. Hence Senator Wong’s cold-eyed fury in defence of her colleagues. ![]() Women who are even just suspected of doing so are forever tainted. ![]() ![]() A man who sleeps around remains a hero, a stud and an object of envy. ![]()
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