There’s an odd argument in the letters column of The Guardian today from Ceri Goddard, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality between men and women in jobs, pay, pensions, justice and politics.

Supporters of its new campaign, What about Women? get a T-shirt (pictured) bearing the logo “This is what a feminist looks like”.
 
Ms Goddard’s letter, written to advance this campaign, claims: “If there are to be drastic cuts in the public sector, women are more likely to lose their jobs, as they make up 65 per cent of the workforce ...”
 
No, wrong. More women may lose their jobs, if there are more of them employed. But they are not more likely to lose their jobs. By expressing it in this way, Ms Goddard makes it sound as if women’s preponderance in the public sector workforce will act prejudiciously against them.
 
In fact it will be perfectly fair if more women lose their jobs. The alternative would be to act disproportionately against men. And that’s a strange position for a body devoted to equality to take, surely?