By: Bitethehand

Bitethehand
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:28:14 +0000

In reply to Mike K.

…these feminist groups…?

First there is only one feminist group, ‘Sisters Uncut’, referred to in the article and you don’t mention any others in your response and I doubt you can name any.

Neither do I know whether the ‘Uncut’ refers to the grotesque female genital mutilation, so common in Islamic States and only comparatively recently made illegal in the UK and in other civilised democracies. But I suggest it does.

Intersectionality refers to how two or more aspects of discrimination might advantage and disadvantage individuals.

At one time in the UK’s Civil Service:

‘The marriage bar prohibited married women from joining the civil service, and required women civil servants to resign when they became married (unless granted a waiver). It was not abolished until October 1946 for the Home Civil Service and 1973 for the Foreign Service.

https://www.civilservant.org.uk/women-history.html#:~:text=The%20marriage%20bar%20prohibited%20married,1973%20for%20the%20Foreign%20Service.

It explains for instance why there have been so few British female ambassadors. The current one to the USA Dame Karen Pierce, appears to be the first ever woman ambassador, since the first British envoy to the United States, Sir John Temple, was appointed consul general in 1785.