When, at the end of September, the Equal Opportunities Commission is subsumed into the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, do not believe that things will change for men.
After 30 years in existence, the plight of men has worsened and partly this is because the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) purposely ignoring male issues and promoting discrimination against men in the guise of positive discrimination for women.
One of the biggest changes in that period was the equalisation of retirement age but this clear discrimination was ignored by the EOC. It took campaigns from a charity called Parity (link) to make that happen, as with a number of other cases ofinstitutional sexism by the state against men on issues like prescription charges and bus passes.
When the changeover happens next month, the same old ignorance of the needs of men will be maintained and the same old refusal to deal with male sexual discrimination and male gender discrimination will continue.
There will still be no call for a Minister for Men, which the Equal Opportunities Commission does not support (link), despite actively supporting a Minister for Women.
There will still be the same old denial about the need to raise the profile of male domestic violence victims and how the education system is failing boys.
To get around the latter fact they even commissioned research this month to try and prove that class is the biggest factor affecting boys education, not the feminised education system (link). The EOC would never commission similar research if it was an issue affecting girls!
It also ignores issues around pensions, prostate cancer and other issues (see sidebar on the Minister for Men manifesto).
Just because the name on the door will change on 1st October 2007, the people will not, as nearly all will be joining the new Commission. Their ignorance of the needs of men will be harder to track as will facts like those revealed in August where it was shown that only 18% of employees (link) at the EOC were men.
The new EHRC will still ignoring men and only promoting women's issues.
It will still be promoting male discrimination under the politically correct guise of positive discrimination for women.
It will be the same old story that men will continue to be sexually discriminated against and the state will merely look on.
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