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Diversity / Management styles / Debating

Gender Inequality Autocratic I beg to differ

The gender gap Authoritative I totally disagree
Women's status Inspirational Let me get this straight,…
A male chauvinist Affiliative
Feminism Charismatic Generally speaking
Misogynist Strategic In general
Mansplaining Results based Overall
Housewife Laissez-faire In particular
Parental leave Example setting On the whole
Maternity leave Collaborative On second thought
Career break Participative Basically
To bring up children Consultive To a certain degree/extent
To raise children Persuasive To cut a long story short…
To look after children Let me put it this way
Household chores Debate Your argument is flawed
To be faced with a dilemma Opening statement because…
A childminder Closing argument What has that got to do with
A nanny What do you think? the issue?
To juggle family and career How do you feel about this? You're missing the point.
To be financially dependent / Wouldn't you say? You need to bear in mind…
independent As a rule…
To earn a living Opinion That's nonsense
Harassment Personally, I think… You can't be serious
A menial job As far as I am concerned… That's ridiculous
The glass ceiling My feeling is that… That's preposterous
Affirmative action If you ask me… Let's move on, shall we?
Equal opportunity What I'm trying to say is… let's move on and come back to
To bring home the bacon In my (humble) opinion this later.
To be the breadwinner
Macho Agree or Disagree Idiomatic Expressions
Paternity leave I see your point, however… Let's agree to disagree
Discriminate I agree / disagree Splitting hairs
Blatantly Out of the question To be the devil's advocate
I couldn't agree more. To make mountain out of
Management Styles molehill
Delegating Reiterate / Rephrase If you say so (sarcastic)
Democratic So, what you are saying is… Back to the drawing board
Empowering If I've understood, you… Bring to the table
Hands-on In other words Drive a hard bargain
Controlling You're absolutely right. To sweeten the deal

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