Women in the UK
Funny isn't it - once you ditch all your preconceptions and open your mind - support comes from the oddest places ..
In this case Boris Johnson - of The Telegraph - somebody who works for a newspaper I wouldn't have thought to link to normally ...
Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and engineering. This thing is huge, and it is happening at every level, and no one seems to be thinking about the consequences.Most trainee barristers and two thirds of medical students are now women — compared with 29 per cent women in the early 1990s. If current trends continue, most doctors will be female by 2012. It is ludicrous for the Equal Opportunities Commission to keep droning on about "glass ceilings" at the top of corporate Britain, or in the judiciary, when you think how fast this transformation has been.
It is a stunning fact — the biggest social revolution of our lifetime — that far more women than men are now receiving what is in theory an elite academic education. When I was at university 20 years ago, the figures were almost exactly the other way round, with the ratio 60:40 in favour of males. Far more female graduates are coming out of our universities than male graduates — and, in 30 years' time, when these people reach the peak of their careers, the entire management structure of Britain will have been transformed and feminised.
Interesting - and I have to ask - are countries that hold down women and refuse them an education - or even the right to drive - progressing as quickly?
Or is the "West" just a "decadent society" that needs to be changed in some way because it grants equal rights to women?
Tags: new cold war, boris johnson, telegraph, women's rights, feminism