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British bosses have admitted to prefer hiring men rather than women of “childbearing age,” a survey revealed today.
According to research conducted for legal firm Slater & Gordon, almost half of all managers are wary of hiring women in their twenties and thirties for fear they will soon want to start a family.
A further third thought that mothers were not as good in the workplace once coming back from maternity leave due to “family distractions.”
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society