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Should Gender Be Included In The Census?
//The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has undertaken research as to whether the 2021 census should ask questions about people’s gender identity as well as their biological sex.
This follows protests that asking about people’s gender is discriminatory.
If the proposals go ahead, the change would leave the Government without accurate data on the number of men and women officially living in the country.
An online self-completion survey found that 0.8 per cent of approximately 10,000 respondents had transgender identities and that around half of this population – or 40 individuals – had undergone gender reassignment surgery.//
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I’ve never considered myself to be a feminist particularly, but I’m with them on this one. It seems the sensibilities of a very few are taking precedence over common sense. What say you?
This follows protests that asking about people’s gender is discriminatory.
If the proposals go ahead, the change would leave the Government without accurate data on the number of men and women officially living in the country.
An online self-completion survey found that 0.8 per cent of approximately 10,000 respondents had transgender identities and that around half of this population – or 40 individuals – had undergone gender reassignment surgery.//
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I’ve never considered myself to be a feminist particularly, but I’m with them on this one. It seems the sensibilities of a very few are taking precedence over common sense. What say you?
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I've always found it useful for disnguishing the Francises from the Franceses among my ancestors, woofgang.
Aside from that - I presume it's been useful over the years in planning for future pensions, for instance, as men and women retired at different ages. And I imagine it's needed if you want to calculate, say, the pay gap between men and women (unless they have other sources of information about how many males/females are employed). Greer may have a point there: in fighting inequality you need facts and figures. But saying women will lose their right to exist is hyperbole.
Aside from that - I presume it's been useful over the years in planning for future pensions, for instance, as men and women retired at different ages. And I imagine it's needed if you want to calculate, say, the pay gap between men and women (unless they have other sources of information about how many males/females are employed). Greer may have a point there: in fighting inequality you need facts and figures. But saying women will lose their right to exist is hyperbole.
I can see that when men and women's lives were much more different then it might have been more useful info....When I worked in the NHS I worked on surveys and consultations including designing some. One of the things that I learned to ask was "what will you do with this information?" and the second, equally important question was "how reliable will the answers be?" Commitment of the respondents is a dicey issue too. Too little commitment and accuracy suffers because people don't care, conversely too much commitment risks people skewing their responses in order to support the outcome that they want.
The whole concept of gender as it's currently understood is rather difficult to represent on a form,it seems. Maybe if it had a line with "exclusively A" on one side and "exclusively B" on the other?
How you'd then get stats out of those results though isn't easy to see, and that is rather the point of the census.
How you'd then get stats out of those results though isn't easy to see, and that is rather the point of the census.
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