Sure thing Riverboat. All these pesky people talking about 'rights', how on earth is a mill owner supposed to make any money these days? I bet you'd still have kids sweeping the chimneys.
CCLN - the bar stops getting higher when equality prevails in the workplace. It doesn't have to (nor indeed can it) rise continuously. As long as both men and women are treated equally within the organisation then the bar stops. What raises the bar in the first place is European social law. If you want to stop the bar rising then stop the European social law (something our govenment often tries to do), but once the law is in place you'd better make sure you obey it and apply it in a gender equal fashion. (Did I just say 'gender-equal'?
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