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Ah I don't want to comment on most of that, but I do think there is good reason to ask if women as a class are oppressed today, as they certainly were in the pa
by jm__87 9y ago
Ah I don't want to comment on most of that, but I do think there is good reason to ask if women as a class are oppressed today, as they certainly were in the past. This means looking for and removing any biases in the hiring practices of our institutions, our education system, and so forth. You will never get rid of inequalities as men and women are just too different, but you can definitely make the system as fair as possible.
- weberc2 9y agoThe problem is how we make the determination. For whatever reason, many well-educated, powerful people (university faculty and journalists come to mind) are content to conclude that women are oppressed today based on C-suite or STEM demographics while ignoring mining, garbage collection, construction, forestry, oil rigging, and other hazardous or otherwise undesirable occupations. Or serial assault vs literally any other kind of assault. Not to mention the myriad criteria for which men are clearly disadvantaged (health/longevity, judicial prejudice, homeless, mental illness, public resources, education, etc). I don't know how we can hope to answer your question with such a blatantly biased approach.
- greglindahl 9y agoSo you're saying that everyone who disagrees with you isn't paying attention to the evidence, which you find totally convincing. Somehow I suspect that is not the case. BTW, my aunt went to welding school and then had to sue the union in order to be able to get an actual job. Is a study of that sort of discrimination a sufficient counter-example to welders being overwhelmingly male, or is it just that most women don't want to be welders? It's totally true that my aunt is an unusual woman. Not only did she want to be a welder, but she was willing to sue.