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"  World leaders from 53 countries are currently discussing global nuclear safety at a special summit in The Netherlands. It&amp;#039;s a fully catered affair (because free food is one of the very few perks that come with a work conference) and, get this: Women were purposely not hired to work the event. British newspaper The Independent says this was apparently the catering company&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;attempt to prevent world leaders from getting distracted.&amp;quot; Sure, because the likes of President Barack Obama, who&amp;#039;s among the global leaders in attendance, would stop caring about nuclear terrorism the second an attractive young waitress asked him if he&amp;#039;d like his water sparkling or flat. (It&amp;#039;s worth noting that the nine women leaders at the conferences were presumed capable of controlling their hormones.) The owner of the catering firm told a Dutch newspaper, &amp;quot;If 20 gentlemen are serving and three platinum blonde ladies, then that spoils the image. The personnel needs to act in as reserved a manner as possible, and you can&amp;#039;t achieve that by adding a couple of pretty, conspicuous ladies to the mix.&amp;quot; He also dug himself into a hole deep enough to safely bury nuclear waste \u2014 perhaps \u2014 by explaining his original plan: employ ladies in &amp;quot;little blue dresses.&amp;quot; That dream was squashed when the Dutch foreign office deemed the skirts too short. Let&amp;#039;s hear it for men in power. Follow Alex on  Twitter. Photo credit: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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