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Published: 24 May 2007

Gym facilities fit for women

• THE council has adopted a policy of having ‘women only’ sessions in their leisure centres.
At Swiss Cottage, for example, men are forbidden from using the swimming pool and using the quieter, downstairs section of the gym at certain times.
When I asked the gym instructor when the ‘men only’ sessions were, he told me that there weren’t any!
As a policy it doesn’t even make sense – at these times the main section of the gym ends up overcrowded, and the downstairs, ‘women only’ section barely used.
This policy appears to be unlawful under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and men are charged the same membership rates as women so why is their use of the facilities more restricted? The council should end this backward, discriminatory policy, or at least counterbalance it by introducing the equivalent number of ‘men only’ sessions.
DAVID NEWMAN
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