In the last academic year women on MSc Engineering courses at Brunel University were given financial support of £22,750 each because vagina. This outrageous initiative wasn’t reported by any mainstream media outlets anywhere, to the best of my knowledge.
My thanks to a London-based MRA for informing me of the current Brunel Women in Engineering Programme. An overview, from the website:
The Women in Engineering Programme supports female graduates to attain their full potential in the engineering profession. The Programme consists of a bespoke mentoring scheme (all mentors are professionals), personal professional development training and visits to industry. The Programme also includes a £10,000 Women in Engineering Award for 30 selected female students [my emphasis] starting their full-time masters studies in September 2015 on a range of MSc courses.
This Programme aims to help you promote yourself as an engineer, have a better understanding of the career paths and opportunities available to you, and develop a network of key contacts to help you rise to the top of your profession. [What will these women do, if and when they rise to the top of their profession? Preference the advancement of female engineers over their male colleagues. Ensure women get the jobs in air-conditioned offices, and men get the outside jobs.]
We can be confident the mainstream media will not cover this story.
Justice for Men & Boys 
just because they taught you to kiss up to women,tolerate their perks,keep them in high estemm,does not mean they were right,and does not mean you should.
If anything,the opposite is due by now.
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What next when this ‘pay the women extra’ scheme still does not result in a fifty-fifty (or greater) male-female ratio of ‘engineering students’? Is the establishment then to conscript women into engineering, to send buff-coloured official telegrams ordering the requisit numbers of women to collect their overalls and hard-hats from the nearest church hall before being loaded onto Army buses to be taken to Loughborough and Brunel and Manchester etcetera? What, horror of horrors, if those women graduates in engineering then decide to take non-engineering jobs or to stay at home and pump out babies instead? Shall we then see the establishment ordering them dragged screaming towards building sites and oil refineries and factories? How resolute are these feminist folk in their ambitions?
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What potential has anyone who can achieve nothing substantial without extraordinary support?
Will the women have to repay the money if they subsequently fail, or refuse, to achieve their ‘full potential’ in engineering?
Will these same women need yet further support, in ten or twenty years’ time, to re-enter the workplace after taking time off to have children at the tax payers’ expense (engineering methods and practices having developed in the interim, making them effectively unemployable)?
Hasn’t the mess the NHS is in, in large part from a desire to enable women to achieve their ‘full potential’ in medicine, made any impression on the bigwigs in engineering?
Will some snivelling government mouthpiece issue a grovelling apology to those more able men denied a place to study engineering and thus prevented by real discrimination from achieving their full potential?
What long-term benefit does such a scheme offer to society?
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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This is discrimination . Sadly it will take a case from a student to challenge the “reasonableness” of such a generous offer made only to women . It does indeed beg the question how disabled are women in order to require such privilege simply to meet their male peers on a level playing field? Almost by definition there won’t be a male student wealthy enough to mount a legal discrimination case to expose this gross sex discrimination. First of all men need to be equally informed that the sex category in the Equality Act applies to them as much as women. Secondly those who can afford it mount cases. You may recall the case where the start of a case forced BA to drop it’s discriminatory seating policy . There seems to me to be a good in encouraging men and women to consider less typical careers ( schools, health and civil service desperately needing to open themselves to males ) but not offering such financial and material privileges.
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