Hypocritical?

As a woman recently retired from a long, professional career I can sympathise and identify with some of the points made in the article.

But to respond to your point ... I have no idea because I haven't checked, but just wondered ... are there any male only colleges anywhere to redress the balance?
 
"Out of 1,000 former students of Murray Edwards College, 38 per cent have said they felt non-supportive and difficult colleagues and managers, bias, bullying and undervalued work were posing major obstructions in their careers".........

Those feelings are hardly exclusive to women.
 
Quicksnapper said:
As a woman recently retired from a long, professional career I can sympathise and identify with some of the points made in the article.

But to respond to your point ... I have no idea because I haven't checked, but just wondered ... are there any male only colleges anywhere to redress the balance?
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Not as far as I know, although I assume Roman Catholic seminaries are? Oxford and Cambridge did have some exclusively male colleges, but I think this changed within the last generation. I was at Edinburgh in the 70s, and at least one hall of residence was female only. There was a general rule that no visitors of the opposite sex were permitted from 10pm - 7am, if I remember correctly. This was enforced in the female hall, but ignored everywhere else.
 
If there was no gender discrimination in society as a whole then perhaps there wouldn't be a need for single-sex educational establishments. As it is, and I think by most quantitative measurements (e.g. salary, career advancement etc), women are discriminated against more than men. That's not to say that men don't experience things mentioned in the article such as bullying, undervalued work etc. but if they do, it tends not to be because of their gender.

Based on your (the OP's) assertion, you could argue that single-faith schools and schools catering for disabled or special needs pupils are also "hypocritical".
 
If you want evidence of women being discriminated in the work place, look no further than Birmingham

Having to sell all sorts of assets to pay up for when they underpaid women, saw yesterday that the NEC will have to go in the fire sale to get the required one billion quid.

Probably not true anyway if its in the CEN, Daily Mail of the East
 
I don't understand tbh. Women are more than 50% of the population. All of the gender based discrimination I have personally encountered, has been from women (situations that are impossible or unlikely to happen to men) or religious (and maybe race) based - I was going through a predominantly muslim area and didn't get a healthy welcome. My eyes were really opened a few years ago when a white British man that I know fell on hard times - and wasn't able to get any help from anywhere - had he been an ex convict, needing rehab or foreign, he would have been able to go to various organisations, had he been a woman, far more doors would have opened. I recently went to some feminist events and to be frank, some of the women were sending awful messages about men generally and many were passing off opinion as fact, playing on women's emotions, not to mention the very prominent sense of "we must be victims and blame it on having vaginas". I'm not saying that it doesn't happen because I believe that it sincerely does, - just that I think there's a men vs women war, where gender seems to always be an important factor, if a person is getting bullied at work for example, how often does it irrelevantly get mentioned that the bully is a man and victim is a woman? - Just like race, religion or any other group when you catergorise people.
 
Gupster said:
"Out of 1,000 former students of Murray Edwards College, 38 per cent have said they felt non-supportive and difficult colleagues and managers, bias, bullying and undervalued work were posing major obstructions in their careers".........

Those feelings are hardly exclusive to women.
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No there not but generally men will not be suffer those issues simply because they are men

Steve
 
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