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SFU’s fitness centre should definitely keeps its women-only hours

[caption id="attachment_1780" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Popsugar[/caption] Last week’s The Peak article “SFU’s fitness centre should remove its women-only hours” ignores the many reasons that the women-only hours are necessary in gyms. The article argues for gender equality, which is a noble aspiration: it would be great if our society recognized men and women as completely equal, and they were expected to act more or less exactly the same. Gender is not that simple, though. It comes with a history that rsults in males and females raised in different ways with vastly different expectations. This makes some women feel…

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