Women are already in the minority in the City – being excluded from big nights out with clients and contacts only serves to emphasise their ‘difference’, and disadvantages them in terms of building key relationships and contacts. There is also the more fundamental point that employers are paying for what Fawcett refers to as ‘a form of commercial sexual exploitation’, which ‘fuels sexist attitudes towards women’. Should this sort of entertainment really be endorsed and paid for by organisations which claim to be promoting equality and respect for women at work ?
We’ve been told that many employers in the City have now banned staff from ‘adult entertainment’ clubs, and that the real reason lapdancing club business is booming is custom from laid-off bankers. But if clubs in the City are directing their marketing activities at corporate clients, and include providing receipts without indicating the nature of the entertainment paid for, this tells a different story.
We know anecdotally that visits to strip clubs still form …

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