Lady Lane Market opened after Tower Hamlets Council found that most stallholders were usually maleLady Lane Market, which forms a part of Petticoat Lane Market, features nine stalls although more are due to open in the coming months.The project is part of a Tower Hamlets Council and City of London initiative to regenerate the area, at a cost of £2.7m over four years.
"Markets have played a crucial role at the heart of the East End for generations but they have traditionally been male-dominated spaces," Ann Sutcliffe, a corporate director at Tower Hamlets, earlier told theSusanne Nicholas, 55, and Marilyn Crew, 53, founders of Mazsu Naturals, sell homemade organic skin and hair care products."We sell at other markets, where stall holders are often quite surprised to see women traders," Ms Nicholas said.
"I don't like cooking except for making this sauce," she said, adding:"It took me nine months to create this flavour."Ms Ismail lost her job in 2017 and has been selling her sauce - Bas Baas - for the last year, once a week at Roman Road in Bow.Anila Babla, 35, from Shadwell, a freelance graphic designer and art therapist sells vintage and retro pin badges, along with hand-made bags and purses."I think this council project is amazing and so exciting," she said.
Women.. shopping..... Women...... shopping........ Women...... Shopping..... Can't see the problem..
Lots of blokes complaining about this. Not a good look, lots of blokes 🤷♂️
How earth can that be called diverse
Divisive virtue signalling: pathetic
Bet ‘Gender’ is in it somewhere !
Tht is deemed discriminative. But why just women market yet if a mans market opened there wld be an outcry.
A shop run by people who understand men’s pain. 🤔😎
Makes great economic sense girls. Not.
This must be in protest of the men only markets that exist in the UK.........
But when is it International Men Only Market Day?
Imagine if this was a men only market. There would be uproar.
Can men attend?
Racism against men? Am I generalised as if I was the same as every other man in the existence?
Bet it smells like a fish market.
If only the folk screaming 'sexist' in the comments here gave an actual shite about the daily abuse women suffer...
How is this a good thing? What next whites only benches? Men only clubs?
Thats discrimination and shouldn’t be allowed take note snowflake lefties
Bizarre, or should I say bazaar. See what I did there 😁
Finally, buy your bra from the Market.
Imagine the outcry if this was men only market
Don’t see a problem myself... So long as they’re at home later to cook their husbands tea
piersmorgan No penguins allowed apparently..
I’m offended as a man. Does my voice get heard? Or is it because I’m a man that I should “man up” about this?
Men only market opens in London, NO CHANCE and they call them the weaker sex Good Luck with the Market and lighten up on the men I had more to say but gotta go Coming Dear
What if you are transgender or gender neutral.
Cue men all over the country who never even knew this existed until five minutes ago: ThIs Is InEqUaLiTy I'm OpPreSsEd
Discrimination, no?
Is it a fish market by any chance? 😘
Men are so useless!☺
What a great idea 👍
Is there pubs , or as we married blokes call them man sanctuary (from shopping)
Discrimination, sexism.
Why?
Isn't that sexual discrimination?
We try to get rid of sexism not to flip sexism around
Stunning and brave! Women were unable to open a market stall until now... This will poke an eye in the toxic masculinity which was blocking them, as there were never any female market traders until this courageous act!
Why
Go ahead .. at least men will get a decent bit of peace not having to walk around with a crazy woman all day ..
What about the gender neutral lot, and the trans.? Looks like you may have a lot of problems coming your way.
Bless their cotton socks.
Why
WTF
Wow.... a men only market would be sexist.... where are the feminists crying foul play?
How progressive
Britain has already succumbed under pressure of islamists because of some islamic apologists and People with dubious background of Terrorism. But they give lecture to other non muslim states to uphold pluralistic, free & gender equal society.
What about muh equality?
A brave step towards empowering women more. 💩💩
Sexist!
Double standards 🤷🏼♂️
Poor headline designed to stir things up (as if there isnt enough division at moment). Its not a women-only market its a market where women are the stall holders.
Great I won't have to go with my gf.
That’s alright, they only sell jam rags and Tena lady. 😂😂🤮
This is hilarious, was this idea from some bloke who has a women only kitchen in his house too! ffs hahahaha
ladies only, what about gender equality now, 😂men need to stand against it and make some noise 😂
whats the fucking point
Some people want more equality than others it seems. Don’t know why I’m surprised
Right. We need a male only market now. It’s only fair
Religion gets everywhere and it stinks.
What if someone wants to buy a man?
Sooo many questions. This is like making a woman only kitchen. And isnt equality the goal here? So division would be the exact opposite. EqualWhenConvenient GetWokeGoBroke
Is that not sexist? Or do they only sell women there?
They stopped gentlemen clubs because it excluded woman so is this not a back step for the moving forward
This is illegal. I’m going to start a cross dressing white Muslim ginger only market. No males or females welcome
And I bet they would kick off if it was a male only market. EqualityForAll
Leftists idea of diversity and equality ; 'I know lets have a woman only market!' You couldn't make this up.
More sexism.
😂😂😂😂
This is sexist and should be immediately shut down.
By discriminating against gender, this marketplace is acting unlawfully (specifically the Equalities Act 2010 which also covers premises). As men are unable to be employed on these premises, this breaches equality legislation. See:
Good news for equally.
So no coq au vin on offer then.
wrong in sooooo many ways
Thought that would be illegal?
but... why?
Ffs, they’ll be wanting to do the washing up next!
Sexist. But it does not matter as i am all genders and none all at the same time.
Women only That’s sexist!!!
Sexiest
How can this sort of apartheid be right?
Is there a sweepstake for how long it lasts?
Utter BS!!
Kinda lame
I absolutely give up. Is it women only traders or women only customers. What's the point. Unless it's for women who don't feel safe in mixed environment. Then this will cause far more harm than good
All these people coming here to say 'imagine if this were the other way around' obviously didn't read beyond the headline, because quite clearly the fact that this was done in response to markets being mostly male clearly makes your point invalid.
Well let’s hope they stick to women only, i.e. those actually born a female, and all those pretenders and fakes get a kick in the bollox to prove they are not women....
There aren’t many white women in the photo. Perhaps this market offers freedom away from their lovely religions where the men are oh-so gentle, passive and kind. I can understand why this place exists. I’m not a fan of men in general anyway
Nonence
Why? They talk about equality. Imagine if it was the other way round...
Bit sexist but your Gabby was great for the Villa....
A healthy society brings people together , not divides them. Otherwise it’s a really good idea 😂
Utter bollocks. I've grown up with London markets and some of the best stalls were run by women...shouted louder than the men, had better banter. Ultimately had better sales. This is a complete crock of shit.
I forgot and sexist . Women only?
Why?
White minority street market must be Londinistan.
Good shout! If you’re gonna do the ironing, cooking and stuff might as well get busy and buy the kit as well
I can't wait to show up and self identify as a women when I get there.
Sexist
Sexist pigs
Sexist, uninclusive, discrimative, ridiculous and should be illegal
Is there a men only market?
Thats sexist that is
Wonderful! Of course we now need a men's only market in London.
Is it a black market 😎
Where is the exclusive Male market?
What a lovely news story. I wondered if there would be any bleating, insecure, small pricked men in the comments. Reader, there were.
Most shops seem to appeal to women anyway 😬
I don’t think I have misread the article. The market traders are all women. It isn’t a market restricted to women customers. The scheme is to encourage women who want to be market traders (currently only 10%).
Yay equality, where men's associations have to let women in but women only is fine; oh wait. Modern feminism makes out women are weak and need special treatment.
You won’t be seeing this in the Middle East lol
I thought we were supposed to be all about “unity” 🙄
The white women are in the minority in that photo.
Bloody ridiculous if men did that this type of woman would be up in arms ... all these woman that want the gender pay gap equality etc etc are absolute hypocrites they are an embarrassment to us
Feminism rubbish which is destroying the society and family more divorce rate more single mums more family breakdown women and men complete each other no need to compete and fight forever.
Of course it does
Welcome to medieval, population: the oppressed.
Get out from that kitchen And rattle those pots and pans Get out from that kitchen And rattle those pots and pans Well, roll my breakfast 'Cause I'm a hungry man..hahahahahaha
Must be a sale on irons .
So confusing.....
Are British women allowed?
need some new underpants & socks for christmas' i'll be down the market when it opens
£2.7m. How many nurses and social workers could that employ?
Wthat the actual?
good, let them all have a good natter well we get to the local boozer and watch our footy!
The bbc failed to clarify that it is run by women. Not banning males from shopping there. So no you don't need to identify as anything to go there, you can identify as male and still shop there to support women.
Fantastic news, more places should be women only. Infact just get rid of all men
Great news. Much success.
So irrelevant of the gender issues will this stop them going to the first stall and seeing something they like and then taking 3 hours to go all around the other stalls just to end up at the first stall and buying what they actually wanted 3 hours earlier? LOL
Is it only for women shoppers too?
Can u imagine the outcry if a man only market popped up. Getting sick and tired of all this men and women shite. This country is divided enough without rubbish like this.This is just becoming a boring joke now. It's 1 thing being equal in pay etc but this is embarrassing to women
Good job we live in a modern world where women want and deserve equality , ain’t it . 🤷♂️🤨
Yeah but when the woman's retirement age goes up from 60 years old to 66 years old in 2020 to bring it more in line with the men,the smiles will be gone.
A) What if I want some bananas or a Barnsley chop B) How much are these women?
Sexist
Got all the women l want thanks
OMG, Imagine the feminist uproar if there was a Male only market.
I think it's labour policy to nationalise women
Imagine if men had one... sexist it would be called
Can they be sued , where’s Harriet Harperson, equality needs addressing here
Send herself off down gives me a bit of free time 🍻👍
Usual suspects
Good luck to them . But can we have markets back in towns too please ,used to love shopping at good market stalls which seem a thing of the past ,oh and proper flea markets too .👍 Bring them back to our high streets .
Just when you thought everyone was equal, back we go
Is that not discrimination?
thats discrimination its illegal
Not go shopping at a market?
We’re trying to get rid of inequality not make wider divisions 🤨
piersmorgan have you seen this!?
Only sells kitchen sinks
Can you imagine the uproar over a men’s only market piersmorgan
As this is Tower Hamlets is more to make it so Muslim women can shop without having to deal with men they are not related to.
Suits me, can't stand any market.
So....the answer to having too few women stall runners is to create a women-only market? Umm, there's a point missing here somewhere I'm thinking.
Apart from Juliet I can't see many people who see this as a good move
Well if I go I can identify as women 👍😁
I love BBC news
Positive discrimination is not the answer. Find better solutions boycottallwomenmarket
Isn’t this patronising for women
Bet it takes an age for them to park the car as well
I could have sworn that we have anti discrimination laws in the UK.
So sexist metoo
Sexist
Sexist in every way!!😡
Sexist bollocks! 🙄
Hoor house?
If it keeps 'em quiet let them get on with.
This is nothing but the thick end of a wedge which will see segregation increase. This happens only when you allow people to come to your country and let them under the PC and Racism screen apply their values, not the UK's which is men and women are equal.
Because the 'men' rightly get bad press for segregation, this is an easy way around it, 'it was the womens idea'. This is just more control of women, dressed up as something else. Reverse psychology.
Do men not shop! 😧
Why ? Isn’t that sexist and illegal ?
OMFG HOW STUNNING AND BRAVE!!!! 😍😍😍😍
Problem here is they'll all be too busy nattering about Home and Away to sell anything
Then it is not a market....As a market must constitute at least a Man and a Women.....And no man is there to buy them if they choose to 'commoditise' themselves.....It is only men that have need for the Sacred values of women.
Apart from all the men that wish to identify as women of course. 👍
Thought they wanted to be treated as an equal!? Another gender exploitation.. . I used to go to the boys club as a kid (youth club) but the pc brigade said that they had to let girls attend or it was discrimination.....sort it out for fucks sake!
Sexism would you allow a man only market ?
If it was a men only there’d be a national out cry
No problem I'll just identify as a woman.
Why🤷♀️
Any grooming products for Christmas 🎄
Sexist and probably illegal..... but it's Tower Hamlets mafia, so part of the course.
Why? No, really.......Why? Are women in 21st century London so fragile, delicate and tender that they need government intervention to enable them to become a market trader? Will there be Labour Council provided fainting couches just in case the have a touch of the vapours?
Wait until the trans men demand entry.
London has fallen. Western civilization was a gift from our forefathers and a great one at that. It was never ours to give away. We have been let down by politicians and law makers.
Just No.
It’s a big like the women only carriages on some of the foreign railways. They’re provided for safety and sanctuary from men that can’t keep their hands to themselves. I guess this is for the same reason in an area of high immigration.
But they're forced into selling purses and handbags, sewing kits, beauty products, and jewellery as per the social construct of feminine interests!! Must be because the patriarchy won't let them sell cheap tools, phone and tech accessories and meat products.
“£2 a pound” shouted by a lady doesn’t have the right ring to it 😂
All the white men crying sexism on this thread ... they just don't get it do they
Oh, wonderful. Because, as we all know, creating more and more divisions in society is what we all need.
Surely that’s illegal under EU law?
Oh ffs
Can't these women hack it in the real world or why does anybody think this is a good idea? Just remind me... which bits of men's and women's anatomy is in use during market trading... 🤔
This isn't how equality is done but ok.
But piersmorgan can go if he identified himself as a woman
rsiereilly perfect
What a fantastic idea... the women can get the shopping done quicker so will have more time to get home clean up and cook dinner
If men opened a 'mens only' market it would be sexist...
Why? Why on earth do we need this
If I put a wig on and claim I sell identify as a woman can I please enter
Only open for 3 weeks out of 4
YaY Lets promote discrimination in 2019!
And yet women are wanting to be treated as equals.. If it was other way round they'd be protests, strikes etc! EqualityForAll
Islam has given such business suggestion earlier, but no one understood this.
Best of luck.
Looks like 'ethnic women only' market...wtf
If women want equality, they shouldnt be opening women only markets...what would happen if men suddenly opened men-only markets? You can be sure there would be protests around the world.
But what if I don't just want to buy women? 🤷🏻♂️
All I see is a Britain regressing to clown world at light-speed. The traitors who did this will pay for it one day.
... Why?
'Treat women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers' - Muhammad Gods Messenger 'Treat women kindly, if you hate a thing in them, it may be that you dislike a thing while God has placed in it alot of good' - Quran 4:19
Imagine the outrage if there was a men only market. DoubleStandards
What if i identify as non binary, would i be allowed to enter
WENZ THE MENS ONLY MARKET? 🇬🇧🇬🇧😡😡
That's fine, I sometimes identify as one.
Thought they'd all be in the kitchen.