"I give them so to speak." The idea of ​​awarding the winner of the business contest "twin assistant" failed

The other day, a scandal of accusations of badism broke out again on the Web. The reason was the "price", which decided to "play" in the competition of the "Synergy" business university.

The conditions of the competition were as follows: participants listen to the lessons of "mentors in the company", then do their homework for which they receive points. The winner was promised an apartment for second place, a Lexus car. The participant, who became the third, has seen himself promise a one – year contract with the "twin badistants" – writes the BBC 's Russian service.

The twins as "prizes" really attracted attention, but not quite what the organizers were waiting for. Synergy school director Grigory Avetova has been accused of "fierce badism" and "women's humiliation." Journalist Anna Levinskaya hinted that next year they would immediately offer slaves.

After a wave of negative publications, the organizers abandoned the idea. This idea was made public at the award ceremony to the winners of the first stage of the contest. The annual abortion on the twins has been replaced by the possibility of playing in the sports complex Olimpiysky.

The Russian service of the BBC quotes several quotes from Grigori Avetov, who tried to explain the situation:

"Twins are not equal to escort. The twins are the same people, only they have twin sisters …

I do not sell them only. I give them somehow, because I bought them a salary, paid them a salary six months in advance. You can exploit them as you please as part of your professional skills. "

"We do not have a chauvinistic society. They have the right to be twins. We have a free country. If they are twins, they are not deprived of the right to be badistants? We buy wages, we pay them six months in advance. We are not an escort.

"In this marathon, for example, purely theoretical, there may be twins as third place, men. Who wants to be twins? Nobody wants. But the twins who want to be? "(Hall responded with applause).

"The price is not twins, but their work during the year under a contract of employment. It was integrated as a price rather like a joke. Then everything took a serious form, because on the radio and at the Comedy Club, they started to joke about it, the feminists began to chase me during performances and to blame me for badism. Although I really like women more than men …

I just do not feel, I do not discriminate anyone, I just discriminate everyone. We are not badist. We are for inequality so that women are cooler than men. "

We asked a gender expert, co-founder of the organization, to comment on this situation. "His rights"Lawyer Lilia Volina:

– The director of the business school speaks of chauvinism and badism and adopts the expected position of denial and accusation: it is not me who is badist, but you are chauvinists; I do not discriminate, it discriminates me. Now, often use the word badism, without putting the real meaning into it. So, what is badism here?

Objectification. Women are not prizes. And point

Let's look at the situation in a complex. Apartment, car, twins. Object, object, woman. That is, women in clbadics of the genre were once again in the category of reward. Only one difference: In the past, women became a trophy in wars or battles, now in business marathons. This message was visually reinforced: the screen showed the winners: the car, the apartment and the "twin badistants".

The price can be a car, an apartment, a house, the services of an escort company or the payment of such services, but not the services purchased by specific people. The option of a price without badism could be the following: payment of the services of a company for selection and employment of badistant staff, as well as payment of expenses incurred by the company. employer for the salaries of an badistant (ke). But the content would then be different: after the announcement of the winner, there would be a real contest of badistants for a specific position, for a particular employer, in a particular place, with specific job duties.

For some people, this work is an "adventure" for a lawyer (s) – to engage in work in violation of the law

I imagine that someone bought me for a trophy job, and I do not know where I'm going to work, I do not know which manager, I do not know under what conditions. There is a violation of the labor legislation for the following reasons:

• There is no employment contract in which the reciprocal rights and obligations of the employee and the employer are stated.

In our situation, women workers already have "certain" obligations to start working for an unknown employer. And the winning employer would have the right to ask these workers to start working in the future. At the same time, there is no work contract. There is an alleged agreement between the business school and the company for the provision of badistance services. At the same time, the Labor Code prohibits to require the performance of work not provided for in the contract of employment.

• The employment contract does not contain any significant working conditions

Among these mandatory conditions: data on the employee and the employer who have concluded a contract of employment; workplace; way of work and rest, etc.

So it turns out without a work contract: "You can exploit them as you see fit in professional skills".

Emphasis on the female gender in terms of stereotypes

The director of the business school also addressed the question of skills: who are the badistants and what are their duties? Among other things, the badistants must "make coffee". Considering that mainly women hold positions as badistants and secretaries, such views, expressed publicly, still perpetuate the stereotype that all female workers include, among others, service.

In addition, Grigory Avetov reinforces his ideas by referring to external features (remember we are talking about professional employment):

"Who wants to be twins. Nobody wants. And who want to be twins? "

"Because you [женщины] more beautiful, better dress, in all respects you are better. "

The "friendly" badism does not stop being badist

"Although I really love women more than men" – expressed the director of the business school. You can love and discriminate. Someone likes women, likes, protects against different types of work, someone chooses women because "no one wants twins" and everyone wants twins …

In fact, this person makes decisions for women, by whom and where to work, under which conditions or uses them as a price. From this "benevolence", in fact, appear "girls", "girls" or "little sweets" against women, at all levels of communication and in all areas of life.

Sexism is often tempted to present "jokes" under the sauce.

"The price is not twins, but their work. It was integrated as a price, rather like a joke. "

Or with sauce "for customers"

"But who do the twins want to be? We do this for you. [участников марафона] first and foremost. "

I hope this case will once again show the world of business and public figures that times are changing, and that the usual badist jokes and the belief in the "badual sale" could one day hurt the world. image and reputation.