Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:
“To be honest, my career was enhanced by being assigned to people with ‘challenging behaviour’ as it gave me wider experience than female colleagues. However it’s good a man has won exposing (a) sexist assumptions, (b) males do the dirty/dangerous jobs and women hang back, (c) ‘equality’ is a nonsense in reality as clearly it makes sense to use bigger people to deal with things that need it. In reality I can see why the ‘sexist’ choice is made and its logic, but also in the logic would be higher pay for greater risk and a specialist role. The latter creating a ‘gender pay gap’. I wish there were many more such cases, too often women get all the rewards that men get, without actually doing the same job. The hospital managers may query ‘equality’ a bit if they can’t allocate men to tough situations. If they allocate women they’ll go off sick with stress, in my experience.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 
The German upper house, the Bundesrat, has passed a landmark military service law that will go into effect on January 1. This law mandates young men to undergo medical examinations and be registered on a list for military service, while active service remains voluntary. The legislation allows parliament to decide on introducing compulsory conscription if targets for expanding the armed forces are not met through voluntary measures alone. The aim is to increase the number of soldiers in the Bundeswehr from the current 184,000 to between 255,000 and 270,000 by 2035. All young men and women born in 2008 or later will receive a personal questionnaire that asks about their motivation to undertake military service. Men must answer this questionnaire, while women can choose not to respond, as the German constitution does not provide for compulsory military service for women.
Interesting that the compulsory medical and entry onto a register for military service effectively means its the young men who will be drafted, if not enough “volunteer”. The questionnaire appears to be a sop to the idea of equality. Again the men must respond, logical if their medical and entry onto the “list” is also compulsory! Again the women can take it or leave it. Given a choice their male contemporaries don’t have. There have been protests about this, but of course the men find themselves in an invidious position. To protest is to look unpatriotic, cowardly even and not to have the medical or answer the questionnaire invites prosecution. All things simply irrelevant to their female contemporaries. Who can choose to virtue signal either way without consequence. Now in the past countries with compulsory national service had some recompence. Jobs held open for their return, student loans/bursaries, special services to support job finding…. You can be sure all such things will be labelled “sexist” these days as they benefit only or predominantly males. Unlike all the provisions for maternity/parental leave that similarly compensate for time away from the workforce, though of course motherhood isn’t compulsory nor decided by a “lottery”. Double standards? Equality?
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