I(man) edit a newsletter at work for circulation around the whole department (1,200 colleagues). We recently got a request to include some content on International Women's Day. "No problem!" I say "I have a trio of women colleagues who help organise the newsletter and I can ask them to produce the content."

So I put the request before them, and discuss two articles; an interview with 3 women leaders and a more general piece of prose. They are up for it, and broadly I recuse myself to avoid interfering, I don't want to tell them what they should be saying about their own issues, after all.

The problem is that one of the women is determined that we not focus on women's issues. She says she is not a feminist, and that women shouldn't be picked out more than anybody else. To keep everyone happy we've agreed the general prose can be more focused on broader equality and diversity issues; which is fine, wood for the trees and all that.

Unfortunately, she has also started picking at the interview questions, suggesting questions which focus on 'general equality' rather than 'gender equality'. If we wanted to go down that route we'd need a broader stable of interviewees than only women, for obvious reasons.

So the advice I seek:

What do I do if the non-feminist keeps pushing? Having said I wont interfere, I have reminded the team the article is meant to celebrate women's unique perspective. But if this carries one I may have to get involved and I'll look like one big douche-y hypocrite.

I've already privately offered all my support to one of the feminist writers, and I trust her to fight her corner, but the non-feminst already has tacit support from our supervisor (a man who says he went to a leadership meeting, where "they were all old men, so the problem is generation, not gender").