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For all the talk about creating bi-gender parity in the workplace, we focus less on real discrimination against women. We're not talking about maternity leave,

For all the talk about creating bi-gender parity in the workplace, we focus less on real discrimination against women. We're not talking about maternity leave, child care, health care, protection against harassment, pay parity, or changing conduct policies to prevent men from isolating power. What we are talking about is simply leveling out a ratio of workers. Treating women fairly has become a secondary consideration to hiring, when it should be the other way around: treat women better, and maybe they will decide to enter the field in greater numbers, but not necessarily.

titanix2 9y ago
> maternity leave, child care, health care, protection against harassment, pay parity Most of these issues are solved in Europe (3 months paid maternity leave, healtcare for everybody, social wellfare given when having childs, same salary grids at least for government jobs), and still we have to deal will all that parity crusade. And the real issue I see with results of studies such as the one linked is that the trend will only intensifies with the following logic: if the current measures to improve the gender ratio are ineffectives, more extreme ones will be taken. But being ineffectives themselves (because based on a wrong axiomatic) they will only feed the negative feedback loops and call for more extreme policies, until something breaks.