The new president of the Law Society, Martin Mears, apologised yesterday for calling a fellow candidate "the most dangerous feminist in England".

(She is, according to the new president of the Law Society)

VAMPS AND TRAMPS by Camille Paglia, Viking £17

LETTER:

From Ms Cecilia Giussani

Christmas is an expensive time for employers, as theCity law firm Nabarro Nathanson knows only too well. It was at one of the firm's Christmas parties that Donna Van Den Berghen, a secretary, claimed her boss had touched her breasts and given her a bear-hug. The party apparently degenerated into a "bunfight" in which, said Ms Van Den Berghen, her boss proceeded to consume a seven-inch chocolate penis covered with cream.

CHARLESTON - A military academy was ordered yesterday to admit the first woman into its cadet ranks. Judge Weston Houck's decision would admit Shannon Faulkner, 19, to The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, where women have previously only been allowed to attend classes as visiting students. Ms Faulkner had filed a sex discrimination suit against The Citadel, which had accepted her application, mistaking her for a male student and then rejected her when discovering the error. AFP

A CHILD SUPPORT Agency manager's claims that he was sexually harassed by a female colleague were thrown out yesterday by an industrial tribunal that concluded his evidence was not credible.

A FORMER car dealer yesterday won pounds 15,000 compensation after he was dismissed by an employer who replaced male salesmen with an all-female team.

Sir: I and the others involved appreciated the excellent report by Celia Hall ('Doctors call for action on gossips', 27 May) about the press conference we held to highlight the problem of doctors depreciating the character or skill of colleagues. However, there is one point that I would like to clarify in this report.

Zasha Price, 21, of the Isle of Wight, who wants to become a professional boxer, has threatened legal action under sexual discrimination legislation against the Amateur Boxing Association after it told her women were only allowed to train but not to spar or box.

Sir: Why does Angela Lambert (28 March) criticise the social forces that squeezed her into a child care role ('I was fired for being pregnant') at the same time as claiming that child care is something 'we (that's us girls) seem to do better'? If Ms Lambert's partner had been forced to leave work and look after the baby all day perhaps he too might have appeared strangely gifted with children when she returned home, frazzled at the end of the day, to ineptly handle the unfamiliar child on her knee.

Sir: Congratulations to Thomas Sutcliffe on his devastating put-down of Camille Paglia, the 'high priestess of Utter Bunkum' (television review, 2 March). But he is too sanguine if he thinks she is unusual in universities.

Julie Crosbie, 26, a secretary from Farnborough, Hampshire, won pounds 760 compensation for sexual discrimination after she was turned down for a job with the Wilky Group and her CV was posted back to her with the words 'four-year-old son' scrawled across it.