The Old Boys Network protects its members, and does include giving them a friendly warning that something is a hot potato or poisened apple.
Once they all self-exclude for that reason, all that’s left is outsiders.
Mind you, the Old Boys Network is not a Men’s Network, it’s a “People From Very Specific Socio-Economic Origins” Network which for historical reasons is still mostly made up of males.
In practice that means the above mentioned “outsiders” aren’t just women, they’re also men from less priviledged backgrounds (which commonly includes immigrant minorities and at least their 1st generation descendants in the host country).
So yeah, people not in the “right” (having attended the right expensive schools, going to the right rich people get togethers, having upper class old-weath parents) social circles get given the top jobs only when none of the “proper” people want them.
The Old Boys Network protects its members, and does include giving them a friendly warning that something is a hot potato or poisened apple.
Once they all self-exclude for that reason, all that’s left is outsiders.
Mind you, the Old Boys Network is not a Men’s Network, it’s a “People From Very Specific Socio-Economic Origins” Network which for historical reasons is still mostly made up of males.
In practice that means the above mentioned “outsiders” aren’t just women, they’re also men from less priviledged backgrounds (which commonly includes immigrant minorities and at least their 1st generation descendants in the host country).
So yeah, people not in the “right” (having attended the right expensive schools, going to the right rich people get togethers, having upper class old-weath parents) social circles get given the top jobs only when none of the “proper” people want them.