Some have become celebrities in their sectors, men whose names are known even to children.
And there are still plenty around, particularly in the information technology and energy sectors: men whose hunger for acquisitions, aggressive accounting (mostly of the sales-inflating type) and large personal rewards knows few bounds.
People start talking about things like "boot sectors," "man-on-man DIMM insertion," and "[beep]." via BBG.
His successor, Greg Dyke, is encouraging it, however.Mr Dyke is a private-sector man.
As is customary in Japan's service sector, men don't tip the hostesses, but some men give them gifts on special occasions, like birthdays or holidays.
"There's growth in some areas – we've seen it at The Week [owned by Dennis] and at our motoring titles, but there have been [declines] in the teenage sector, men's magazines, the technical and gaming press".
She said: "It's the only campaign I've worked on where being a woman made a difference - in that sector men generally err on the side of flowers, or people rollerblading".
Quizzed on why they chose to teach in the independent sector, men were slightly more likely than women to prioritise an academic focus, while women put more stress on class sizes and logistical reasons such as location.
"In the public sector men from ethnic minorities working full time now earn slightly more than their white male colleagues, but in the private sector, for every pound a white man earns, a man from an ethnic minority earns just 89 pence.
The JRF report illustrated how this had happened: among the lowest-paid quarter of the population, women's wages have reduced by 40p an hour since 2008; over the same period in the same sector, men's wages have reduced by 70p an hour.
The estimating sample consists of private sector men who are between 18 and 65 years old and work regularly between 15 and 70 h a week.
