To hell with sympathetic sexism. ‘Busy mums’ don’t need your patronising help | Sian Townson

We have learned to think critically about obviously biased statements - but against prejudice dressed up as kindness, we are more defenceless

" Sian Townson is a lecturer in engineering

Sometimes a rule is merely implied by its exceptions - that's what the exception that proves the rule actually means. "No swimming outside the flags" tells you it's OK to swim between the flags. "Closed Sundays" means "Open Monday to Saturday".

A Royal Society campaign telling you that "women can be scientists, engineers and mathematicians too" tells you that most of the time, scientists, engineers and mathematicians aren't women.

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