http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/10119321/Female-executive-claims-City-firm-fired-me-for-being-a-woman.html

You have to ask yourself – why did the company hire her in the first place? Presumably she was a women then, too?

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/justice-for-men-boys-and-the-women-who-love-them

The campaign has another 51 days to run (to 3 August) but donations have already reached £601. If we don’t reach the £1,000 target by 3 August, all donations will be returned to donors in full. If we pass the target before 3 August, any sums beyond £1,000 will go towards funding more candidates. We plan to field 30 candidates at the 2015 general election.

This morning we received a £200 donation from a pensioner, HS. His details aren’t shown on the website because he chose to stay anonymous, but his email address is visible to us, so I emailed him to thank him for the donation, and asked him if he’d like to explain the motivations behind it. He replied, and I have his permission to reproduce his reply here:

I’m a pensioner, and every year I set aside £200 from my pension payments to pay for a short holiday. I’ve got to an age – 84 – where I’m not as mobile as I once was, and I was in two minds about whether to have a holiday this year, or not. I decided I couldn’t think of a more worthwhile use for the money, than to help you fund another candidate at the next election.

I can barely contain my rage at what’s happened to British society over the past 50 years, and the past 30 in particular. A small minority of men-hating women declared war on men, and the state has helped them – and women in general – assault men (and boys) on so many levels. It continues to do so. I’ve seen a steady poisoning of relationships between men and women, which has led to the dysfunctional society we see all around us today. And it’s not only men who suffer. Most women and children suffer, too.

I’m sick to death of the constant assaults on men’s interests, and they get worse with each passing year. An example is the current crisis in the NHS, caused by a huge influx of female doctors (I believe 70% of medical students today are women). Most female doctors quit the profession, or work part-time, and refuse to work unsocial hours. The result is an ever-worsening service, for which the taxpayer pays ever more. The (Conservative) Health Minister Anna Soubry has the gall to say the ‘solution’ is to train yet more doctors (mostly women, needless to say) at a cost of £250,000 each. Most of the tax burden falls on men. THIS IS INSANE.

I see feminist thinking behind most, if not all, the assaults on men and boys. My grandson’s wife had an affair, the marriage ended in divorce, she ended up with the house and children – who adored their father - and while poisoning their impressionable young minds towards him, she denied him access to them even in the face of Custody Orders (which the courts wouldn’t enforce).

He’s been close to suicide quite a number of times (I can quite understand why the F4J member defaced a portrait of the Queen yesterday). We shouldn’t be surprised the suicide rate among British men is three times higher than that among British women. I don’t think most men’s suicides should be attributed to ’failings’ on those men’s parts. Many of those men have simply reached the point where their lives have objectively become not worth living. The state tells men in distressing circumstances to go hang themselves. We shouldn’t be too surprised that so many of them do.

I’m a lifelong Conservative voter, but under David Cameron the party has been a disaster, following the feminist agendas of Harriet Harman and her like. Dear God, when you compare Cameron with Margaret Thatcher… I’ll end here before my blood pressure goes through the roof.

Thank you for all you’re trying to do for men and boys (and women and children in general). I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to see your party succeed in its aims, but I hope I do. Good luck.

I don’t mind admitting HS’s email brought a lump to my throat, and we thank him warmly both for his generosity, and for his explanation of why he donated the sum.

If you can make a donation to our campaign for more candidates in 2015, however small, I should be very grateful. We’re working hard to make the future brighter for men and boys (and the women who love them). Nobody associated with J4MB draws any income from donations. Thank you.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/justice-for-men-boys-and-the-women-who-love-them

An interesting piece by Louisa Peacock in last Monday’s Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/10106807/Women-fared-better-than-men-in-jobs-since-recession.html

The article starts:

The number of women in employment since 2008 has increased by more than a quarter of a million, a 1.2% net rise, while the number of men in work has dropped by 70,000, a 0.4% net fall, a study of official labour market data has shown. The analysis by The Jobs Economist, an employment consultancy which publishes the research today, claims the widespread assertion that women have been more adversely affected by austerity and job cuts than men is wrong. Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist, said he can see no reason why the Government is focusing on trying to help get more women back to work when men appear to have been worst hit by job cuts.

We applaud Dr Philpott, a professional economist, for being a rational voice in the midst of a relentless media narrative in which women are invariably presented as being disadvantaged. His blog’s here http://thejobseconomist.blogspot.co.uk  and the following recent post relates to this particular matter http://thejobseconomist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/do-workless-women-deserve-more.html?m=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulYuojvoMw

Caroline Criado-Perez, a feminist and founder of ‘The Women’s Room’ http://thewomensroom.org.uk contributed to the discussion. Over the course of one section (16:15 – 20:05) I made the point that we have five longitudinal studies which show that when companies increase the number of women on their boards, corporate financial performance declines. Our briefing paper on the studies is here:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/improving-gender-diversity-on-boards-leads-to-a-decline-in-corporate-performance-the-evidence/

Ms Criado-Perez made the following astonishing claim (18:16):

There are many longitudinal studies that would say the opposite.

I expressed my disagreement with the claim, and I now publicly challenge her to send me links to the ‘many’ longitudinal studies she claims exist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulYuojvoMw

I’m pleased to say donations have already reached £180, and I’d like to make a personal appeal to you for a donation. We’re planning to field 30 candidates at the 2015 general election, and the cost of deposits and campaign literature will be at least £30,000.

Nobody associated with the party – or Anti-Feminism League http://fightingfeminism.wordpress.com and Campaign for Merit in Business http://c4mb.wordpress.com – draws any income from donations. Indeed most of us (including myself) are donors.

If even a small proportion of the people who are justly concerned about the assaults on the interests on men and boys donated £1.00, we’d soon reach our target of £30,000. We’d like to see if this ‘crowdfunding’ model works for us, while we have almost two years to go before the next general election. So can you spare just £1 to support our work? Or possibly more?

If you can afford a donation of at least £20.00, we’ll invite you to provide feedback on our public consultation document. I’ll personally read and consider your feedback, and engage in an exchange of emails (or a phone discussion, if you’d prefer). Your feedback may impact on the content of our first general election manifesto.

The link to the campaign to raise £1,000 for one more candidate:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/justice-for-men-boys-and-the-women-who-love-them

Thank you for your support.

Mike Buchanan

mb1957@hotmail.co.uk

I’m grateful to a supporter, DN, for recently informing me of an organisation formed in London earlier this year, The 2% Club http://thetwopercentclub.com. Their website contains some of the discredited claims still made to this day on the website of The 30% Club, so four days ago I emailed the club’s founder, Heather Jackson, with a simple challenge. I haven’t heard back from Ms Jackson, but if and when I do, you’ll be the first to know. Don’t hold your breath. The content of my email:

Heather, good evening. A supporter has pointed me towards your website. I was particularly struck by the statistics on this page:   http://www.thetwopercentclub.com/issue.html   The claims of improved performance (66% higher ROCE etc.) are, I believe, those made some years by Catalyst, an American militant feminist campaigning organisation. If so, you might be interested to know Catalyst have stopped making such claims, according to a leading academic proponent of more women in boardrooms, Professor Susan Vinnicombe, contained in her evidence to a House of Lords inquiry last year:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/a-remarkable-statement-by-a-leading-proponent-of-improved-gender-diversity-in-the-boardroom/

If you look at Catalyst’s ‘Bottom Line’ series of reports you’ll see they’re reporting correlation, not causation, and the reports’ editors make it clear causation cannot be concluded (or even inferred) from correlation. The reasons for correlations are well understood, and have nothing to do with corporate performance improving after more women reach boardrooms.   The reasons men outnumber women in boardrooms etc. are perfectly well understood, and discrimination against women isn’t one of them. I detailed them in my book The Glass Ceiling Delusion: the real reasons more women don’t reach senior positions. The most important reason was outlined by a renowned sociologist, Catherine Hakim, in 2000:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/dr-catherine-hakims-preference-theory/

There’s compelling evidence that driving up female representation on boards leads to declines in corporate financial performance:

http://c4mb.wordpress.com/improving-gender-diversity-on-boards-leads-to-a-decline-in-corporate-performance-the-evidence/

If you know of any longitudinal studies showing that increasing the number of women on senior teams (including boards of directors) leads to improved financial performance, would you be so good as to point me to them? Nobody else has been able to supply even one such study worldwide. Thank you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018z8jw

Four ladies contributed to the programme at various points – gender balance is a fine thing, isn’t it? - as you can see from the following timeline:

1:02:04 – 1:03:20 Introduction by JVS

1:05:58 – 1:13:26 Discussion between JVS and Ruby McGregor-Smith, chief executive of Mitie plc (a FTSE250 company) and chairwoman of the Women’s Business Council

1:13:27 – 1:20:21 JVS discussion with myself

1:21:19 - 1:28:33 We were joined by Caroline Criado-Perez, a journalist, feminist campaigner, and co-founder of http://thewomensroom.org. Two further sections of the discussion at:

1:30:14 – 1:31:03

1:33:50 – 1:43:11

1:43:12 – 1:53:50 We were joined by Amanda Murrell  http://www.amassocs.com/ who is the President of ‘Bedfordshire Businesswomen’. Part-way through this discussion, at 1:49:10, we were joined by a lady phoning the programme, ‘Ann from St Albans’. Ann spoke a great deal of common sense, and said that – given the chance - she’d vote for Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them). A fine woman.

I should like to thank JVS and BBC Three Counties Radio for giving me this opportunity to articulate some of our key arguments about the genders in the workplace. I also thank the ladies for their contributions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22766643

The gist of the report is that if more women were economically active, the economy would be transformed. The report includes the following wondrous claim, reported in the BBC link above:

Over 2.4m women currently out-of-work want to work, while 1.3m want to boost their hours

What a pile of garbage. Surveys over many years have shown that most women would like to work fewer hours than they do. Indeed a recent survey of 1,200+ women, 25+ years old, in full-time work and with a partner, showed that 78% of them would happily give up work to be supported by a partner, but most felt under pressure from other women to be financially independent:

http://j4mb.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/most-british-women-would-pick-being-a-housewife-over-having-a-career/

I’ll put the discussion on our YouTube channel at some point in the coming few days.

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/a-quick-fix-for-the-gender-wage-gap/