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Justice for Men & Boys 
In a way Helen’s prescription, simply have actual equality “a level playing field”, is supported by the evidence of the “TERF wars”. TERFs not only admit but trumpet that separate sections are essential in fields as different as Chess to Boxing, Poker to Gymnastics, Football to Quizzing because otherwise women wouldn’t get any prizes! Few it seems have the courage to ask them, if “biological men” even those who have substantially changed that biology through medical science, are so much better. What on earth is behind all the quotas, “positive” discrimination. women only shortlists? Other than a grossly unfair system to favour the less competitive!
With the obvious result that these sectors become less competitive with rivals who simply hire the best they can get. Result the relative and absolute declines in many “western” countries.
One point of disagreement I I have is the idea women have “empathy”. Having worked in female dominated industries all my adult life I think this is false. Women have “sympathy” and “project” their feelings on to others. This projection results in precisely the parade of misunderstandings and miscommunications that plagues female workforces that are bemoaned by both female and male managers. Because assuming another person feels or thinks something because you think or feel it isn’t empathy and is quite likely wrong.
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A good example. Women ‘need to be taken seriously’ when they look for GP help – charity | The Standard A focus on how women “feel” and a call that policy is based on this. Compared to what we actually know factually. a. Men delay visiting their GP until their symptoms are serious and therefore are far more likely to be more seriously ill at first medical intervention, consequently have poorer prognoses and lower survival rates. b. Women have a whole medical specialism just for their reproductive health Gynecology, unlike men. c. women are far more likely to present with anxiety or low level depression seeking medical interventions for “low level” mental wellbeing.
But who cares about the facts, its how women feel that counts.
Just as if we based policing on who feels most a risk of crime our police would be all over leafy suburbs and villages assuaging the anxieties of middle class older women, rather than chaotic crime ridden inner cities and “sink estates” where young men are at massively greater risk of being victims of crimes of all sorts. The demographic that is least likely to “feel” they will be a victim. This paradox known for a century.
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