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I applied for a job role a few months ago and was rejected after they prompted me asking for lots of personal information, such as age of my children (I don’t have any), my date of birth, my marital status, etc. A whole raft of questions that could be interpreted as targeting me based on my sex and the perception that I might have (or soon have) children.
Today I’ve been informed that they want to settle with me for a small sum of money. Not great but still feels like a victory.
I’d really recommend trying to challenge employers using ACAS or Employment Tribunals and I might be recording interviews in future as I am sometimes asked these sorts of questions in interviews even though it is obviously discriminatory. Any interview where being a woman is mentioned results in no job offer. I have let far too many instances of this slide and I’m not prepared to walk away any longer.
Saving women's sports means ensuring that scientific / medical research on female athletes and their injuries is as comprehensive as that on male athletes: strategies/equipment/ training that is sex-specific helps women play sports effectively and lessen the chance and consequences of injury.