06-04-2011, 12:30
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The Invisible Woman
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Has feminism blocked social mobility for men?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12970105
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Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class men, Cabinet minister David Willetts has controversially argued. But is he right?
They were meant to welcome a new era of fairness and opportunity for all. Instead, a minister's remarks have prompted debate over the effect of women's entry into higher education and the professions.
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Karen Mumford, professor of economics at the University of York, says it is "woolly-minded" to assume that the number of job opportunities has remained static.
In the days before feminism, she says, those working-class men who achieved upward social mobility tended to do so by moving through the ranks at their workplace.
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As a result, Prof Mumford says, that there was never a pre-feminist golden age in which large numbers of working-class men attended universities.
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I will admit to being biased in this matter..and I'm guessing that I will be in a minority. 
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