UK: David Willetts blames feminism over lack of jobs for working class men

Article here. A counter argument to Willetts statement can be found here. Excerpt:

'The universities minister David Willetts has been criticised after making comments that appear to blame educated working women for the lack of jobs available to aspiring working class men.

Willetts said feminism was probably the "single biggest factor" for the lack of social mobility in Britain, because women who would otherwise have been housewives had taken university places and well-paid jobs that could have gone to ambitious working-class men. The Conservative minister made his comments before the launch of the government's social mobility strategy next week. Looking at reasons for social mobility, he said: "The feminist revolution in its first round effects was probably the key factor. Feminism trumped egalitarianism. It is not that I am against feminism, it's just that is probably the single biggest factor."
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"It is delicate territory, because it is not a bad thing that women had these opportunities," he said. "But it widened the gap in household incomes, because you suddenly had two-earner couples, both of whom were well-educated, compared with often workless households where nobody was educated."'