Sfem,
At first sight a truly fascinating document.
As an un-outed "tweenie, I am fortunate not to have encountered the types of discrimination that the study is primarily concerned with. Further, it seems based on a polar view of gender, as opposed to the spectrum view in which I have to believe.
On the other hand the discussion of British Civil Service resistance to change does resonate as we continue to be subject to annual discrimination in respect of my (and my wife's) partial British Old Age Pensions, just because we are British expatriates, living in Canada. An order-in-council is passed each year cancelling the annual indexing of old age pensions to expatriates in most Commonwealth countries, despite the fact that we made for many years the same contributions as everyone else, and make no claims on the NHS or other British government services. There is no such discrimination against residents of the European Community or the United States because those jurisdictions have sufficient clout that H.M. government wouldn't dare. So far as I know, this sort of discrimination is unique to the UK: it certainly would not happen in Canada in respect of our Canada Pension Plan entitlements were we to return to the UK. To add insult to injury, the dollar value of even my un-indexed British pension has declined by about a third as a result of exchange rate changes.
Sorry! Rant mode off!
At first sight a truly fascinating document.
As an un-outed "tweenie, I am fortunate not to have encountered the types of discrimination that the study is primarily concerned with. Further, it seems based on a polar view of gender, as opposed to the spectrum view in which I have to believe.
On the other hand the discussion of British Civil Service resistance to change does resonate as we continue to be subject to annual discrimination in respect of my (and my wife's) partial British Old Age Pensions, just because we are British expatriates, living in Canada. An order-in-council is passed each year cancelling the annual indexing of old age pensions to expatriates in most Commonwealth countries, despite the fact that we made for many years the same contributions as everyone else, and make no claims on the NHS or other British government services. There is no such discrimination against residents of the European Community or the United States because those jurisdictions have sufficient clout that H.M. government wouldn't dare. So far as I know, this sort of discrimination is unique to the UK: it certainly would not happen in Canada in respect of our Canada Pension Plan entitlements were we to return to the UK. To add insult to injury, the dollar value of even my un-indexed British pension has declined by about a third as a result of exchange rate changes.
Sorry! Rant mode off!