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Eliminate structural biases in education, health care, housing, and salaries that favor white men and see if we fail. Run the experiment. Be a scientist about i
by averagewall 9y ago
Eliminate structural biases in education, health care, housing, and salaries that favor white men and see if we fail. Run the experiment. Be a scientist about it.
That experiment's been done and "we failed". India has greater structural biases against women than the US but a higher percentage of women in tech. And it's a pretty consistent correlation between bias and women's involvement across countries.
- TheLilHipster 9y agoCitations would be more convincing.
- xaa 9y agoTake a look at this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... Apparently, and paradoxically, greater eqalitarianism in a society can result in higher amounts of individual choice, which can actually exacerbate inherent differences between groups (if you believe they exist).