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1. And of course it did. The “feminisation” that younger generations have now to live with and rebel against is a result not a cause. The cause was an ideology that was alive and thriving for decades before its triumphs of the the 20th Century, one of which being the institutional discrimination “DEI” that has facilitated the feminisation of occupations and institutions. I rather like the “we can do it…. but don’t” Because of course as I left my secondary modern in the mid seventies the “Rosie the riveter” image was common as were exhortations and special bursaries to get girls into the apprenticeships that formed the targets of students not heading to further study. Fifty years later the trades, engineering, cheffing, fitter, electrician, tree surgeon etc. etc. are no more “diverse” than they were then (as occasionally feminists complain). Just like the Driving Tester who couldn’t work in rain, women maybe can, but despite all sorts of DEI don’t. The feminised occupations cluster in the comfortable; or at least indoors HR, Admin, Design, Writing, Teaching, Care, Retail, Law, Civil servants… with the exception of nursing pretty clean, flexible and “flexible”. But some of them extremely influential in culture and political life. So is is the case the route to the feminisation of these was paved by the men who ran things the influential and powerful men who made those DEI decisions and policies and programmes long before the numerical domination. As Dr. Morse concludes in her final “take away”.

   Of course the problem is that now the ideology is orthodoxy and its beneficiaries are the majority in the most influential occupations in our political and cultural life.

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