Commentary on Sections Schedule 3: Services and public functions: exceptions Examples
738.These exceptions would allow:
	a cervical cancer screening service to be provided to women only, as only women need the service;
	a fathers’ support group to be set up by a private nursery as there is insufficient attendance by men at the parents’ group;
	a domestic violence support unit to be set up by a local authority for women only but there is no men-only unit because of insufficient demand;
	separate male and female wards to be provided in a hospital;
	separate male and female changing rooms to be provided in a department store;
	a massage service to be provided to women only by a female massage therapist with her own business operating in her clients’ homes because she would feel uncomfortable massaging men in that environment.