Is Stonewall’s face red?! Of course it wouldn’t dream of erasing mothers from the language. It was a typo.
… Read the restStonewall has dropped guidance advising groups on its workplace schemes to remove the word “mother” from their policies.
The lobby group said that it would no longer reward higher ranking scores to employers who replaced “mother” with gender-neutral alternatives.
Nancy Kelley, the Stonewall chief executive, denied in an interview that such a policy existed. “We’re not interested in removing or erasing the word ‘mother’,” she said. Kelley, who has two adopted children with her wife, added: “I’m a mum. I’m married to another mum. It’s a deeply emotive term. I would be really upset if my children didn’t call me Mum.”