Gender reform row

Kevin McKenna: Rape Crisis tribunal victory shows women must not be gagged on gender

IN some interviews I’ve conducted with successful women over the last two years or so, a pattern has emerged that speaks of something dark in Scottish public life. Without prompting, one prominent female executive said that she had better get “the gender stuff out of the way”. I’d had no intention of discussing this but she felt she’d had to draw the red line as it belonged in the territory of workplace discrimination against women.