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I notice that there have been a couple of high profile cases of sexism in Wales recently.
This: WRFU
And this: Plaid
And I am aware of something that happened at the WFRA (Welsh Fell Runners Association) not long ago that seems to have been swept under the carpet.
Does Wales have a cultural problem or is it just as bad as everywhere else and just coincidence?
For that you'd have to do comparison of number of sexism cases and population across the UK.
According to the second link:
Under Adam Price' leadership bad behaviour by elected members was tolerated, the party failed to have a zero-tolerance attitude to sexual harassment
I'm not sure this is necessarily a Welsh thing.
Charlotte Nichols, the Labour MP for Warrington North, told the Guardian: “Zero tolerance should mean zero tolerance. What safeguarding measures have been put in place to ensure everyone working with this aide remains safe, including potential interns?
The Labour Party obviously doesn't have a policy of zero tolerance to sexual harassment:
This month, she was told her complaint had been upheld again and that the man, who remains an adviser to a Labour frontbencher, will receive a “final warning”.
No one has been sacked and the Labour leader hasn't resigned.
Sport and politics tend to attract people with personal qualities which tend to cause behaviours like this.
Given the recent shitstorm at the CBI, I’d postulate the problem is ‘men’ rather than ‘being Welsh’ or ‘sport’ or ‘politics’. There seems to be a considerable number of us who are still living the 50s in terms of our attitudes towards women.