More Than One In Three Young White Men Fear They’ve Missed Out On Promotion Due To Their Race Or Gender
More than a third of young white men in the UK fear they are losing out on promotions because of their race and gender, a new poll has revealed.
The survey* by JL Partners saw 36 per cent of those quizzed admit they held those concerns.
The poll of 800 men across the UK, also found:
- That one in four white men (23%) – now say they feel discriminated against because of their race or gender;
- How almost half of men (46%) now censor making jokes or giving honest, but respectful, feedback to colleagues at work because of fear this could affect my career;
- A plurality (41%) of white men now feel anxious that they can be sacked for doing or saying the wrong thing;
- More than one in three (34%) of white men now think that white men are the least valued workers in their workplace, and;
- How nearly one in three (31%) white men say that they think their sons will have fewer opportunities because of their race/gender
The polling was commissioned as part of a major new YouTube and podcast series, called White Men Can’t Work!.
It has been made by award-winning documentary-maker Tim Samuels, the former host of the BBC show Men’s Hour.
He said: “Millions of men are walking around on eggshells at work too scared to speak freely – whilst knowing that being male can now be a disaster for your career. The scale of discrimination, self-censorship and anxiety is staggering,” said Tim Samuels.
“White Men Can’t Work! has spoken to guys who’ve been sacked literally just for being men, or pushed out over crazy micro-aggression such as talking about the male and female ends of cables. Younger men are very despondent about their futures. All this is pushing men towards populism and the likes of Andrew Tate.”
“Of course racism and sexism have to be stamped out but our biggest companies and institutions have implemented a very divisive and ideological form of DEI that demonises white men, disregards free speech and, when you look at the data, doesn’t even help those it was meant to. We need smarter ways to tackle discrimination that actually work.”
