BBC: Landlords can't discriminate against benefits claimants because they are more likely to be women, evidently.

Lumberingfeather · 2018-02-26T14:00:51+00:00

So are anti-begging and anti-rough sleeping laws sexist against men, since men are the large majority of beggars and rough sleepers?

InBaggingArea · 2018-02-26T12:41:44+00:00

But single mother Rosie Keogh won compensation for sex discrimination from a lettings agency that refused to consider her as a tenant because she was on state benefit.

The cleaner and former paralegal successfully argued that blanket bans on benefit claimants indirectly discriminated against women, especially single women.

This is because they are proportionately more likely to be claiming housing benefit than single men, according to official figures.

So if more men were claiming benefit, that would be ok? And in what other areas could men claim discrimination?

It does make you wonder.

And I see ads for female tenants only all the time.

Mr_MRAnarchist · 2018-02-26T14:06:05+00:00

So you simply deny them based on the fact that they don't make enough money....

kartu3 · 2018-02-26T13:38:51+00:00

That's court, not BBC.

The reasoning is hard to follow without accepting some genders are less important than others.

Could also merely be a loophole: you can't claim discrimination against on benefit claimants, but can, if it is "targeted against gender". Now, I'm not sure whether law is symmetric and would apply to the other gender as well.

andejoh · 2018-02-27T18:50:45+00:00

Someone should sue the car insurance companies then because they skirt the equality laws by claiming that they base their rates on a persons job with jobs dominated by men resulting in higher premiums.

chadwickofwv · 2018-02-26T22:43:15+00:00

The judge needs disbarred immediately.

Title	BBC: Landlords can't discriminate against benefits claimants because they are more likely to be women, evidently.
Author	InBaggingArea
Upvotes	39
Comments	14
Date	February 26, 2018 12:40 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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