I find it ironic that because men are wary because of sexual discrimination _laws_, the solution proposed is to pass more _laws_.<p>In the article, there is a direct quote from the person being interviewed. "If they only do things with people of the same sex, that is discrimination."<p>Maybe your wife/gf is really jealous and you'd prefer not to walk into that minefield. This article is proposing more regulations to solve a problem that was caused by legislation to begin with.
The cited paper <i>The Glass Partition: Obstacles to Cross-Sex Friendships at Work</i> is available at [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255597459_The_glass_partition_Obstacles_to_cross-sex_friendships_at_work" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255597459_The_glass...</a>
While we are all individuals there are still some traits more common to one sex than the other. It seems women more often than men become attracted to a teacher/mentor/supervisor. Ask any diving instructor for instance. This makes cross sex mentoring where the man is the mentor a minefield.