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[fatboy]

I thought so. That is stupid.

To use an example of sexism. That could mean an incompetent woman getting a job over a perfectly capable man just to fullfil a quota!

Jobs should be given to the best candidate regardless of what sex, race etc etc they are.

Ridiculous.

 

[tedebear]

At my owrk here we actually have a rather large department purely focused on diversity issues - which inclue a fairly serious amount of money spent on the development of womens careers - yes ok so I work in banking - but men don't get the same focus!!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Women! Know your limits!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Women are likely to leave work for long periods of time(if not permanently) to have children at some point in their careers.

This makes employing a man more attractive as they will not be soending money on them to discover they are about to leave.

And for an employer to act on that assumption is illegal.

Rightly so, in my opinion. Not all women choose to have children or career breaks. Yet they find it harder to get employment in some organisations.

How would you feel if employers were reluctant to take on football supporters, because some football supporters skive off on Wednesdays to travel to Irthlingborough for a 7.45pm kick-off?

Incidentally, fatboy ... the reason your university puts economics on a par with media studies is that (many years ago) it was a pioneer in what was then an entirely new academic discipline - taught at Sussex with the same rigour as any other "proper" subject. It's only in the last ten years or so that media studies (elsewhere) has degenerated into the sad excuse for a subject that can be found in so many institutions of learning. Maybe they're still keeping up the old standards at Sussex.

 

[rool]

Of course you are right LB but a small employer will always be reluctant to take on a woman of a certain age, invest in training etc etc only to find in six months time she has left to have a baby never to come back and have to go through the whole recruitment/training all over again. illegal it may be but this is the real world not the ideal world

 

[Barnet Seagull]

The CSA is a disgrace. We've had the guys protesting outside the royal courts last week and some of the stories are nuts.

Check this for an example

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/archive/1998/02/11/NEWS2-2VQ.html

 

[fatboy]

Incidentally, fatboy ... the reason your university puts economics on a par with media studies is that (many years ago) it was a pioneer in what was then an entirely new academic discipline - taught at Sussex with the same rigour as any other "proper" subject. It's only in the last ten years or so that media studies (elsewhere) has degenerated into the sad excuse for a subject that can be found in so many institutions of learning. Maybe they're still keeping up the old standards at Sussex.

I don't think Economics was in the same school as Media Studies before. They have changed the school system this year.