Blog Against Sexism Day: Property

Judith Martin, the etiquette columnist, once fielded a question about how a pregnant woman ought to react when strangers place their hands on her abdomen.

More recently, a pregnant woman's position was eliminated. That this should be a coincidence sounds improbable enough on its own, but she worked at a golf course. Where she was a golf pro¹. Her erstwhile manager intimated that being a golf pro was incompatible with motherhood. The New York Post reports that she'd said she saved the woman the drive:

Incredibly, de Beus later boasted she'd done McDonald "a favor" -- noting that McDonald would "no longer have to make the drive to and from the club every day," the suit claims.

And, of course, women are barred from certain Olympic sports lest they damage their reproductive systems.