School debate about fertile women being employed

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My child's tutor (YR8) started a class debate about whether women of child bearing age should be employed. Is it unreasonable to think this is sexist and ridiculous?

This is awful. Can't believe so many women on this site are supporting it. Imagine if the debate topic was "Should employers stop employing black people?" very "edgy". Absolutely no good arguments to be had in favour, however. Same with the topic under discussion. So inappropriate when developing young children's minds. Needs to be taught as an equality subject instead, e.g. this is the discrimination that women face in the workplace despite it being against the law. How can you help prevent it when you're older?

Also, some girls will presumably have had to argue in favour of no employment of fertile women. This will directly lead these poor girls to form a view of their future selves as useless in the workplace .We need to be building young girls up, not crushing them down.

A better topic would be "should we stop employing young white men from wealthy families, as they perpetuate discrimination?" That's "thought provoking" but I bet all the women on here who were in favour of the fertility debate would argue this is "unfair" or "divisive". SO much internal misogyny on display here, it's just depressing.

So what happens if the pro camp wins the debate? How would that stack up with the school's duty to "promote British values"?

And if the answer is that that's impossible because the teacher wouldn't let that happen, how is that a debate?

It's not an unreasonable topic for discussion, but it's an unreasonable topic for debate in a school if it's not acceptable for the wrong side to win

Surely its down to the "is abortion murder?" discussion?