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Letter to The Times, 27nov02, p23 Danger in women outstripping menFrom Ms Nancy Ody Sir, I am dismayed by the suggestion that girls
need to outperform boys academically in order to be able to compete equitably
in the workplace with men (report, November 25). I am 30, female, and have a degree. I have never
at work encountered sexism that has hindered my progress in any way. I am
also surrounded by women, of similar age, all successful and single. If I and
my female friends and colleagues are representative, then there are thousands
of professionally successful women who feel completely duped by sexual
“equality”. The message of the feminist movement, I
understand, was equality, not superiority. Men are constantly given the
message to stand back, let the woman pass Go and collect £200. But the £200
square is now teeming with women and it is not fun. The men I know, of my age, as disillusioned as to
what their role is in society, in life and relationships. They are perplexed
by their label of villain and so they have left the game and have gone back
to the clubhouse with their mates, leaving those lucky, successful
career-minded women playing in an all-women team. I don’t feel threatened or undermined working
alongside men. I do feel that in the empowerment of women a traditional role
has been taken away from men – at huge detriment to both sexes. What has come
about following the feminist movement is a sort of gender chaos. My peers and I are now living in that chaos, and
it is lonely. None of us really wants to be Prime Minister of an all-female
Cabinet. We need to stop downgrading men – it is all about equality, after
all. Yours
sincerely, NANCY
ODY, 5
Palace Mansions, Palace Road, Kingston
upon Thames, Surrey
KT1 2JZ November
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