Gender studies
It amounts to women tacitly agreeing that men somehow have an unfair advantage over them, which they most emphatically do not. As for “forging a political system that resembles real life”, only the exact opposite approach will ever do this.
Of the many able women I know, not one of them would support such a demeaning system which, of course, discriminates against women in the most insulting way.
Peter Laidlaw
Bramdean Rise
Edinburgh
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Hide AdSurely calling for all-women shortlists does not go far enough in the quest to sweep aside discrimination and inequality; those shortlisted should not only be women, but also black, gay, and from ethnic minorities.
Er, on second thoughts, the Oxford English Dictionary definitions of “inequality” and “discrimination” suggest a flaw in that argument.
DJ Hollingdale
Easter Park Drive
Edinburgh