REGARDING actress Emma Watson's UN speech in favour of feminism, for several reasons it will take far more to convince this writer that feminism is a benign force that men should support.

Attempts to impose a model of 'equality' that seems to be based, at least in part, on a denial of the existence of naturally-occurring variations may well end up doing more harm than good.

While it's true that women are in the minority in several fields, the same is true of men (with the teaching profession being a crucially-important example).

However, such imbalances are not necessarily always due to 'sexism', discrimination, etc, but in many cases are simply a natural result of differences in the career preferences of men and women.

Efforts to eliminate them by means of quotas or otherwise, serve no useful purpose.

HUGH GIBNEY

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Belfast Telegraph