EasyJet is offering 10 places for women each year on the easyJet pilot training programme and underwriting the £100,000 training loan. This is the ‘first phase’ of their long term strategy to increase the proportion of female pilots at the airline.

Few of our blog pieces about education and workplace-related issues have angered our supporters than one we posted in 2014 – here – about female Brunel University MSc Engineering students being handed a taxpayer-stolen lump sum of £22,750 denied to their male colleagues.

Social engineering in the public sector has long been rife, but it’s becoming increasingly common in the private sector, too, and not just ‘women in the boardroom’. The objective is to deny men advancement, or even stop them starting careers in well-paying professions.

Carolyn McCall is the CEO of the low-cost airline easyJet. She became the CEO of Guardian Media Group in 2006, after rising to be CEO of Guardian Newspapers Ltd.

My thanks to Nigel for sending me this:

Dear Mike,

I’ve forwarded the link below as it gives a list of examples of major firms actions on gender (of course no help to men!) Easy Jet are offering 10 places to women  on their pilot course at effectively their expense [note: more accurately, at their shareholders’ expense] if the pilot candidate (woman) doesn’t go on to be a working pilot. If you look at the other examples you will see similar as well as the usual Family Friendly, Mentoring training into management and other privileges.

I realise that you will be mad busy at the moment but I think this information of the case studies is worth having a good trawl through. I would think it will also interest members working in the various companies/industries.

Nigel

The link will take you to a piece by the absurdly-named Government Equalities Office. The link to the piece on easyJet is here.

As a final comment, male unemployment has long been higher than female unemployment, and unemployment has long been known to be a bigger suicide risk factor for men than women. The cost of these social engineering programmes is paid in many ways, including men’s lives. Suicide continues to be the #1 cause of death for men under 50 in the UK.

Claire Carr, 20-year-old liar, tried to wreck a taxi driver’s life. Prison sentence only 12 weeks.

Our thanks to Mark for this. There should be mandatory prison sentences for people found guilty of making false accusations of sexual assault, and the minimum term should be counted in years, not weeks or months. In the meantime, as we proposed in our 2015 general election manifesto, those accused of sexual assaults should enjoy anonymity until and unless convicted of the offences.

Second large room booked for the London conference

Two months ago we posted a promotional video for the conference, partly set in the conference room we’ll be using for speaker presentations. The start of the video is set in the room.

I am pleased to announce that continuing strong ticket sales have given us the income to book a second room on which we’ve had an option, and we’ve just exercised that option. The room is adjacent to the conference room, and of the same size. It has the same floor-to-ceiling glass panelling, with a covered walkway overlooking the Royal Victoria Dock. The room will be perfect for break-outs, socialising, media and other interviews, book signings, refreshments…

The restrictions on video and audio recording in the main conference room are being relaxed for this second room, details here.

Laura Bates (Special Snowflake): Women-only gyms are a world away from boys’ clubs such as Muirfield

Another article from Special Snowflake, in The Guardian. Note the sneering, patronising comparison in the headline between “Women-only gyms” and “boys’ clubs”. I couldn’t get beyond the first two sentences (below) but maybe you’re a masochist, in which case enjoy the piece.

Using women-only spaces to justify men-only ones is deeply ironic. The only thing they have in common is that they both exist because of male privilege.

Special Snowflake has won two Lying Feminist of the Month awards, and was the inaugural member of The Whine Club in 2013.

Lady All-Kneel comments on Clare Balding’s response to the Muirfield storm in a teacup

It’s always good to encounter interesting and/or amusing new blogs. Baroness Honoraria All-Kneel left the following comments in response to one of our pieces about the recent vote of the members of Muirfield golf club to continue excluding women members (the vote was very close, next time around the policy will surely be changed):

Interesting that Clare Balding should refuse to present the golf from Muirfield because of their stance on admitting women as members.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/19/muirfield-golf-club-votes-to-continue-excluding-women

Would this be the same Clare Balding who attended Newnham College, Cambridge, which refuses to admit men as students?

Lady All-Kneel’s blog is FemiFist – our choices, your throat. The ‘About us’ section:

Lady All-Kneel has spent her career lecturing in female-only Universities on the subject of gender equality. She is the chairperson of EFWORC, the Equality For Women Only Rights Committee, which is appointed by the Minister for Women, where she works tirelessly in the name of equality along with the rest of the all-female panel of commissioners.

She also has a passionate interest in public accountability, using her influence on several unelected committees and her seat in the unelected House of Lords to further the cause of holding everyone else to account via innovative methods.

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