So apparently Sainsbury's think that science, history and politics are only of interest to men...

[AnnieLobeseder]

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From the Twittering about this, I believe some Strongly Worded Letters have been written, and Sainsbury's is Very Sorry.

But I think I may have to add a letter of my own to the mix.

The only magazine I ever buy is New Scientist. Do I need a gender reassignment ? FFS!

How old is that picture? About 6 months is my guess looking at the Christmas editions available. This has probably been addressed already and simply looks looks like someone has put the wrong header above that section. Men's interest is full of nuts zoo fhm etc.

There are about 20 titles, and they include 'Christmas', 'Sansbury Magazine', and 'Cooking'.

I agree with you about science and history, but they have also a few that are normally put undr 'women's lifestyle'.

Yup, hopefully it was just a mistake of an individual putting mags in the wrong section. 'Family' Tree' magazine is there too, and that's not considered to be a particularly 'male' thing.

Yep, I had this in my local Tesco Express recently too. Economist, New Scientist, Runners World, Private Eye, National Geographic ALL under 'Men's Interests', and were placed next to Nuts, Zoo, FHM etc. It made me REALLY cross.

I don't think it is uncommon for this to happen and being 'fair' about it I do know that there is a problem with space on shelves and it can be very difficult to shelve things according to the (arbitrary) categories you are given. The 'women's interest' magazines sell by the bucket load and swamp the market so there is very limited space left for 'everything else', hence being lumped in with 'Men's Interests'.

They should just get away with signage altogether, really. It's perfectly obvious which 'section' you are in by the titles, unless it is a very big news / magazine department (as in WHSmith).

Took DS to uni open day the other week, looking at maths and physics. You could count the girls there on the fingers of one hand, the boys went round the block. Liberal arts, totally different story.

Sad but true....