davidhs
Because you had either not read or not read properly Susie's post, you then proceeded to explain to everyone that an employer wants to recruit the best person for the job, that qualifications, experience, etc., should not be the only criteria for choosing a particular candidate and that recruiting employees is an expensive and time-consuming business so it is essential to make the right choice.
Your explanation was not relevant to the issue of systemic discrimination in recruitment - and I think the vast majority of Gransnetters fully understand how the interview process works - I expect several of them have had to carry out interviews themselves.
I think perhaps this was why someone used the terms "mansplaining" and "patronising" - which you assigned, in a rather dismissive way, to "feminists".
The word "feminism", according to the dictionary, means:
"The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes".
The Law Society website makes this very interesting point that I think should be borne in mind when considering how necessary feminism was, and still is:
"We’re all familiar with the saying ‘men are from Mars and women are from Venus’, less well known is that, not so long ago, women weren’t actually considered people at all!
That’s right, in a ruling which prevented women from qualifying as solicitors, the 1914 Court of Appeal case Bebb v Law Society found that the entire sex of women failed to fall within the definition of ‘persons’.
Feminists don't deserve the sneers and disapproval of those who portray them as some sort of malign force that unnecessarily raises issues of no importance and stirs up trouble. Because of them, women now have the right to:
vote
enter professions such as the law and accounting
practice their profession upon marriage
serve on a jury
act as a magistrate
open a bank account
obtain a mortgage without having to secure a male guarantor
buy a drink in a pub
work on the London Stock Exchange
have access to the birth control pill as an unmarried woman
have equal pay for work of broadly equal skill and value;
continue to have control of their own assets after marriage
divorce an abusive husband
............... and so the list goes on.
No doubt after women won the vote there were many men - and women too - who thought that was the end of the matter. And so it would have been if feminists hadn't campaigned vigorously to achieve all the above rights - which are just basic human rights.
