Outrage over EY’s sexist 2018 seminar

If you’re a woman looking to succeed at Ernst & Young, “don’t flaunt your body — sexuality scrambles the mind (for men and women).”

That’s one of the shockingly sexist nuggets that got unearthed from a 55page presentation at a seminar that the big accounting firm hosted last year, according to an explosive report by the Huffington Post.

Despite the fact that the #MeToo movement was already raging at the time of the June 2018 event, attendees were told that female brains are 6 percent to 11 percent smaller than male brains, the news site reported on Monday.

“Women’s brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup, so it’s hard for them to focus,” according to the slide show at the accounting firm’s new office in Hoboken, NJ, according to HuffPost.

The presentation went on to compare men’s brains to waffles: “They’re better able to focus because the information collects in each little waffle square.”

HuffPost’s mole was described as a former EY executive director — with the pseudonym of Jane — in her early 40s.

“Jane recalls being told that if you want men to focus on the substance of what you’re talking about, ‘don’t show skin,’ ” the article says. “If you do, men are less likely to focus ‘because of sex.’ ”

The “Mad Men”-era advice — which also advised that women be “polished,” with a “good haircut, manicured nails, well-cut attire that compliments your body type” — made the female director “feel like a piece of meat,” according to the article.

Elsewhere, the presentation compiled for 30 or so female executives claimed that women “speak briefly” and “often ramble and miss the point” in meetings, whereas a man will “speak at length because he really believes in his idea.”

It added that women don’t know how to interrupt but, rather, “wait their turn (that never comes) and raise their hands.”

The accounting firm told HuffPost that the June 2018 event was the last time that version of the seminar was held at EY. But it declined to detail how the seminar has been changed.

EY couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.