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Goodbye to women only scholarships

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Iused2BanOptimist · 12/01/2019 10:47

Oxford ends women-only fellowship after university rules that it breaches equality law

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2019/01/11/oxford-ends-women-only-fellowship-university-rules-breaches/

twitter.com/womenstandup_/status/1083997600502693888?s=21

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groundcontroltomontydon · 12/01/2019 22:22

How can it be discrimination on the grounds of gender when 'gender' isn't a protected characteristic? Presumably there's an appeals process and the matter will get to be considered by a tribunal with an understanding of the EA?

Coyoacan · 12/01/2019 22:00

How can it be against the Equality Act?

EJennings · 12/01/2019 19:21

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GrinitchSpinach · 12/01/2019 14:25

But this will never happen!

AncientLights · 12/01/2019 12:06

It won't make any difference. If they kept it women only, men would just self ID as women and take it from us that way.

We're all doomed.

Nativityriot · 12/01/2019 12:04

I got a women’s scholarship to college, I had to hide it as the guys in our class would have been so huffy and resentful about it. It was 30k and my class was something like 17% women. The woman who endowed the scholarships would be furious if the bequest was changed, it was a famously male environment.

NurseButtercup · 12/01/2019 12:00

Surely it can't be a breach of the equality act; if certain groups are under-represented, in this case they clearly are hence the reason for women only fellowship.

Sky are currently running a recruitment campaign for women only to train as Sky engineer's, following the logic of the advice given to Oxford, Sky should scrap this campaign!!

www.standard.co.uk/tech/sky-women-in-home-service-engineering-stem-a3785351.html

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Iused2BanOptimist · 12/01/2019 11:05

Well women only shortlists are now mixed sex. I think we can predict the end of anything "women only".

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Katvonbatshitmermaid · 12/01/2019 10:55

The day when every department is 50% biological male and 50% biological female, and all chairs (or whatever they call their senior positions) are split equally, then that's the day we don't need these awards.

Grrrrrrr

Idiots

NewYearsNiamh · 12/01/2019 10:50

Sadly can’t be more eloquent than Angry

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