SUBMITTING EVEN A TWO LINE RESPONSE TO THE LINK BELOW, IS BETTER THAN JUST COMMENTING HOW BAD IT IS HERE IN THIS FORUM, WHERE EVERYONE ALREADY AGREES WITH YOU.

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So the equality department is continuing to accept suggestions until 30th april for which groups are affected by corona and why. You can imagine mens issues will hardly be submitted or mentioned, as people do not consider these, and there are few mens groups

You can submit something here.

So the equality department is continuing to accept suggestions until 30th april for which groups are affected by corona and why. You can imagine mens issues will hardly be submitted or mentioned, as people do not consider these, and there are few mens groups

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Submission form is here:

https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/94/unequal-impact-coronavirus-covid19-and-the-impact-on-people-with-protected-characteristics/

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We need things like impact of education on boys due to school closures - boys already underperform girls from primary school to university PHD level (and are far less likely to go to university - with some areas of the country the gap being 50% of greater).. How will the school closures affect them? How were the home schooling online resources catered to boys learning, who already fall behind?

Universities will have to accept applications from students who haven’t sat exams. The exams in the UK are cancelled and people will get predicted grades.

We already know that teachers marks girls higher than boys for the same work due to bias, as seen here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31751672. Will this affect predicted grades? Will Corona increase the current gender gap in university applications against boys? Surprisingly, even to the researchers, women were preferred 2:1 over identical male applications in STEM recruitment https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360 will these things have an increased affect in university applications if people are not doing exams, and relying on predicted grades and written applications.

Most homeless people are men, how has corona afffeted them? Access to housing and shelters etc are far less. I dot not know the figure for the UK, but in the US there are 2 male shelters and 2000+ womens shelters

Male suicide up, how has male mental health been affected?

The majortiy of funding has gone to womens only domestic violence services, or women focused ones. Have male domestic violence services been given funding? What is the pay disparity? We have heard in the news about domestic violence in corona affecting women, but have we heard as much about men or about male suicide and mental health during this time?

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