A Man's World, A Woman's Unfurled

Business and pleasure, two extremes, yet each endeavor often seeks to complement the other.  Unfortunately, it's still very much a man's world when it comes to business. Several hundred years ago, Jonathon Swift wrote, "We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner--an old saying and true, 'much drinking, little thinking.'"

 

A woman might once have said (after having slaved away, in a hot kitchen, making this man's dinner), "We were to do more baking after serving dinner, but after-serving-dinner is before dessert--an old fishwife said and it's true, 'to many feats, to little treats."