Argus title : Sexism is the canker of society
Last Sunday’s “Panorama” was an examination of our society’s failure to deal effectively with rape. Its deeply depressing conclusion was that for the foreseeable future rapists will continue to “get away with it”.
On the same Sunday the Observer newspaper published an article about recent educational research which had concluded that there was no benefit to girls from single sex education.
As parents of a daughter my husband and I were deeply irritated by the article, not least because it failed to mention even the possibility that girls might be subject to sexism or sexist harassment in a mixed environment. Continue reading