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UK: Men will suffer from new laws on sex discrimination, academic warns

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2008-11-07 22:43.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Dr Catherine Hakim argues that existing legislation has already eradicated sexism against women, and that the remaining gender pay gap is down to the different career choices made by men and women.

She accuses feminists of peddling "myths" about the extra hours put in by women and their thwarted career ambitions to justify "futile and perverse" attempts to help them balance work and family life.

And Dr Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, warns that any further strengthening of equality laws on employment – for instance by forcing both mothers and fathers to share parental leave – risks damaging the career prospects of men.'

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No surprises here

Submitted by Mr VanHuizen on Sat, 2008-11-08 05:42.

In 50 years time, feminism will be known as just another movement that simply continued discrimination, I find it absolutely incredible that people still buy into feminist propaganda.

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manonthestreet Let's hope so

Submitted by trotter on Sat, 2008-11-08 08:17.

manonthestreet

Let's hope so but I would not bet on it. The demise of feminism has been predicted many times in the last 30 years. Remember things like this can last for centuries. It does not matter how bad they are once they get a hold they can centuries to dislodge.

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