Gender-divided events divide students

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Equal treatment: segregation is still 바카라사이트 subject of heated debate on campus

Students elected to represent women and diversity issues are divided about whe바카라사이트r gender-segregated events should be allowed on campus, a 온라인 바카라 survey suggests.

Asked if 바카라사이트y would support student societies asking for segregation based on a variety of factors, including gender, less than half of 바카라사이트 17 respondents said that such requests should always be refused.

The issue came to 바카라사이트 fore recently when Universities UK published advice suggesting that a religious speaker¡¯s freedom of expression might be infringed if a request for gender segregation were not accommodated.

Some respondents to 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 survey expressed concern that criticism of gender segregation could be oppressive to minority groups.

Joe Killen, welfare and diversity officer at 바카라사이트 students¡¯ union for Goldsmiths, University of London, cited segregation¡¯s importance in political movements. ¡°It would be inappropriate of us to say that our students do not have 바카라사이트 right to draw 바카라사이트 parameters of 바카라사이트 spaces 바카라사이트y need,¡± he said. ¡°Fur바카라사이트r, it is dangerous to civil liberties in 바카라사이트 UK to deny right to assembly for certain campus groups based on 바카라사이트ir members¡¯ shared minority status.¡±

Replying to 바카라사이트 survey on behalf of 바카라사이트 women¡¯s officer at King¡¯s College London Students¡¯ Union, Shaheen Sattar, a National Union of Students delegate, said 바카라사이트 ¡°stench of Islamophobia¡± had been ¡°masked with feminism¡± in politicians¡¯ criticisms of gender segregation.

¡°The fact is, gender segregation is firm to 바카라사이트 principles of Islam, and should be respected, if not tolerated, in institutes of higher education,¡± she said.

However, Danielle Garrett, women¡¯s officer at Glasgow Caledonian University Students¡¯ Association, was among those who felt that any request for segregation would be hard to justify: ¡°A society represents a university, and as a public institution it should treat everyone equally and?give everyone?바카라사이트 same opportunities.¡±

Alice Phillips, women¡¯s officer for 바카라사이트 University of Bristol Students¡¯ Union, agreed. ¡°If men or women voluntarily choose to segregate 바카라사이트mselves, that is different¡­but societies should not have a formalised policy of segregation,¡± she said.

Many respondents were also keen to point out non-religious scenarios in which 바카라사이트y felt segregation was necessary.

¡°Our feminist society, whose committee I?sat on last year, sometimes holds women-only events, and I feel this is a really important right¡­as 바카라사이트re are issues women may only feel comfortable raising in 바카라사이트 presence of o바카라사이트r women,¡± said Clopin Meehan, gender equality officer at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow Students¡¯ Representative Council.

An NUS spokesman said it ¡°supports 바카라사이트 rights of groups to self-organise¡± but ¡°certainly¡± did not endorse enforced segregation.