These Women, They Get Everywhere

There’s an organisation in the news at the moment. It’s a major employer, with huge wealth and power, which is more than a little old-fashioned in its approach to employment law and the promotion of its staff. Women, for example, used not to be allowed to get jobs in the organisation, and until now, purely because of their gender, have not been eligible for promotion to senior management.

In any other organisation, this would, of course, have been illegal. But the Church of England is special. And some of the senior team feel so strongly opposed to women becoming bishops, that they are demanding “safeguards” to protect them from the dangers of having to deal with a woman in a senior position, and are threatening to leave if they don’t get them. Well here’s a suggestion. Before they have a chance to flounce off on their high horses, why not just sack the bigoted old bastards?