If it is not women-only hours for swimming baths, women-only courses, awards and everything else, this site has been alerted to the fact that Leicester Council's Highfields Library offers a women-only session on Tuesday's between 1pm and 3pm. In addition, on the same day it offers women-only drop in sessions.
Not only is this in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act, it shows how ignorant Leicester Council is.
A few weeks ago, a report by the Higher Education Policy Institute highlighted the barriers faced by boys in education and that more needed to be done to break these down. In addition, sites like Books for Boys highlight the need to get more boys reading as they are a long way behind girls in English subjects.
So what does Leicester Council do to help boys read, it turfs them out of the library every Tuesday.
This needs a complaint to the Equalities Commission and the Council.
"This needs a complaint to the Equalities Commission and the Council."
So why haven't you? If you believed in what you are saying, then you would follow it up, even if only to be ignored. I have mad many offical complaints on what I have learned on this site such the Home Pride commercial, or the Sintillate breach of the Sex Discrimination Act.
If we are going to get anywhere in stopping this discrimination, then we must do more than simply think to ourselves.
Posted by: Rory O'Loughlin | Wednesday, 24 June 2009 at 15:53
Done some more research on the issue - seems there were big protests over this back in 1996/7 and the policy was actually abandoned for six months due to some brilliant MRAs called the "Equality Squad" actually complaining it was a breach of the sex discrimination act. They even went in the the actual library itself and waited to be kicked out in order to highlight the issue and so they could prove had been discriminated against.
Seems they ultimately didn't win, though article form back then state two libraries were banning men (on for 4 hours!) and now I can only find one. Assuming both bans were 4 hours long, then that's a 75% drop in the amount of gender apartheid, so things are certianly getting better.
I wonder if any new (post 1997) legislation could be used to finally get rid of this sexism for good? Perhaps onone is needed and the original decision is wrong - surely unless they have a men only session too then it cannot be legal?
Posted by: John Kimble | Wednesday, 24 June 2009 at 17:12
Rory I think the owner of this site does his bit for the cause. The "why haven't you" attitude is an easy one to give out.
Why haven't YOU set up sites fighting against the current epidemic of male-bashing, if you believed in what you are saying...etc.
Posted by: Steve | Thursday, 25 June 2009 at 16:48
I have recently sent an email to the Scottish Health secretary and local MSP about the bias in health care. Education and Health are the two topics about male discrimination that really get on my goat. If I sense that my son is getting a raw deal at school I will not be slow in letting them know!
You need to speak up rather than stew in silence.
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I was ordered out of Cossington street library in leicester one saturday morning in 1999. It was a women only session. I complained to the Equal Opportunities Commission as it then was. They basically told me "tough".
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