Equal opportunity?

John Howard's $1 000 000 scholarship plan, an attempt to lure more males into teaching positions, has been called sexist. And it is.
When Howard closed down ATSIC, I thought that maybe he was starting to get over discrimination.
However, there are many similar scholarships in our country which are not labelled at discriminatory. At my first high school there were a several scholarships available only to Asian females. However, there were no scholarships available exclusively to to males or to people of non-Asian ethnic groups. If there had been a male-exclusive or Causcasian-exclusive scholarship these would have been labelled discriminatroy.