The Big Question: Are equality laws backfiring, with employers reluctant to hire women?

via Current Awareness by sally on 16 July

"The head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Nicola Brewer, has just announced that recent and future improvements to maternity pay may, ironically, be backfiring on women by making employers wary of hiring and promoting them. The industrial neanderthal Sir Alan Sugar has added fuel to the fire by claiming recently that many employers bin the CVs of women of childbearing age without even considering their job applications."
Full story from The Independent 15 July 2008