Many charities have been told that they must extend their counselling and outreach services to men because of new equality laws which require local authorities to ensure that services do not discriminate on grounds of sex.Stupidness that nobody intended? When they passed a law to provide services equally to men and women, just what did they intend? Did they secretly intend that the money would continue to flow to man-hating feminist activists?
Fiona Mactaggart, the former Home Office minister, said an "unintended consequence" of the law has meant some domestic violence services have lost grants or contracts for refusing to do so.
She said: "There are some local authorities who interpret equalities to mean that a refuge has to provide for men, not only for women.
"There are some stupidnesses developing in the system that nobody intended." ...
The new Gender Equality Duty, created under The Equality Act 2006, requires that 'public bodies must promote and take action to bring about gender equality, which involves: looking at issues for men and women'.
Eagle Forum Legislative Alert:
Sunday, April 05, 2009
UK complaints about sex equality
The London Telegraph reports:
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Either men and women are equal, in which case there's no problem for these shelters to also help men, or they're not equal, and the gov't needs to get out of the business of trying to make them equal.
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