International Conference on Men’s Issues (2020) – promotional video #6. Video #406 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (0:30).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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CANADA: Measuring the Economic Cost of Affirmative Action in Academia.

An interesting article from Quillette. It starts with this:

“In April, Memorial University—the only university in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador—posted five job openings for prestigious Canada Research Chair (CRC) professorships. In all five cases, it was specified explicitly that able-bodied white men need not apply. Rather, the jobs were reserved for members of “equity groups, including women; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; Indigenous peoples; racialised persons; and persons with disabilities.” 

Following the uproar, Memorial administrators refused to apologise or back down. Instead, they explained that universities across Canada were all doing the same thing (even if they weren’t so blatant about it)—since any school seeking to get Canada Research Chair funding from the federal government must demonstrate that they are tearing down “systemic barriers in academic hiring.”” 

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Chris Rokos, UK’s third-biggest taxpayer, to leave for Greece

Interesting. The start of the BBC piece:

“A hedge-fund billionaire and one of the UK’s richest taxpayers has decided to leave the UK for Greece, the BBC understands.

Chris Rokos plans to open an office in Athens, according to reports. Greece has generous tax rules for wealthy foreigners earning overseas income.

Rokos was ranked third in The Sunday Times list of Britain’s top taxpayers, having paid £330m last year, [J4MB emphasis] and in March said he would donate £190m to Cambridge University.”

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Next wins key appeal to overturn £30m equal pay ruling

Our thanks to Jeff for this. A rare triumph for common sense in a sex-related legal case. Women working in Next stores are free to apply for higher-paying warehouse jobs – as they always were, of course.

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Have menopause campaigns hurt women’s careers? Two high-flyers say yes.

A hilarious piece (Times, £) by a female journalist who interviewed two women, both 65. Obviously, no men were interviewed. The start of the piece:

“Women’s progress in the 21st century has been wounded by double-edged swords: well-intentioned policies, [J4MB: None of them were well-intentioned. All were designed to advantage women at the expense of men, many of them better-qualified.] many of which end up hurting women even when they were designed to help, according to a new book by business leaders. 

Case in point: “menopause strategies” of the kind the government will force larger companies to adopt next year already have the unintended consequence of providing more ammunition for those questioning the competency of older women.” 

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