Their economic ranking has to drop unless women are kept out the ranking in the first place. The comments in the article by the men are pretty clearly about them believing women do not deserve to be there.

> Her boyfriend asked: “Did you have an affair with your boss?” He is now an ex-boyfriend.

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> He thought household chores and child care were women’s work, and that women could not be leaders.

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> In their analysis they found that young men were much more likely than young women to agree with statements such as “men should put career first, whereas women should put family first” and “when the economy is bad, female employees should be fired first.”