What is proportionate discriminations?

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Inspired by taxi thread. Generalising . Expecting a diversity of opinions exist

IN an ideal world there would be no sex based discriminations. Sex based discrimination is allowed where it is a proportionate response to ensure women can fully participate.

But I suspect that allowing sex based discrimination reinforces notions that because women are needing help they are therefore lesser in some way....so we should limit sex separation not just for fairness but also to reduce gender stereotyping?

Is the balance today broadly correct? This could be country specific ...I am in the uk. For me , anywhere where women are naked should be sex separated. Which does mean Male midwives are excluded. Women’s sports nessessity, But not girls and boys sports. AWS I am less sure about. Ditto taxis. Def not things like ladies-only pamper evenings or men only clubs

I think it is also the case that most elite sportswomen prefer a male coach because they associate them with expertise and experience whereas a female coach reminds them of a school PE Teacher.

I've found female and male doctors equally likely to be arseholes. I suspect when people have an opinion on that it's often based on a random chance bad encounter.

A lot of older people are just used to male doctors too, so it doesn't really bother them.

the term midwife suggests female.

the etymology actually only refers to the sex of the person they're caring for:
'The word derives from Old English midd, "with" and wiff, "woman", and thus originally meant "with-woman", that is, the person who is with the mother (woman) at childbirth'.