%0 Journal Article
%T Gender (sic) Equality (sic)
%A Martin Sewell
%J Opticon1826
%D 2008
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/opt.040813
%X This article is a response to both a Letter to the Editor by Dr Ambily Banerjee (Banerjee, 2007) and the recent UCL Gender Equality Event. Dr Banerjee claimed to be ¡®astounded¡¯ to find a ¡®glass ceiling¡¯ (sic) within her own discipline, Anatomy. She concludes her letter with, ¡®I have never believed motherhood is a valid excuse for not realising one¡¯s potential¡¯. Both points are wrongheaded, and are the result of bogus feminist thinking. Firstly, men and women are different; and secondly, we have evolved ¡®as if¡¯ reproduction is the sole goal for which human beings were ¡®designed¡¯ and everything else is a means to that end. Feminism not only harms men, but harms women like Dr Banerjee, too (Quest, 1994; Sommers, 1995). Indeed, women are less happy today than they were in the 1970s and ¡®the changes brought about through the women¡¯s movement may have decreased women¡¯s happiness¡¯ (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2007).
%K gender equality
%U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/102