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Taking your statement as a legitimate point, I think the issue isn't that having a vagina means you should be treated differently (side point: not all women hav
by jcmi 8y ago
Taking your statement as a legitimate point, I think the issue isn't that having a vagina means you should be treated differently (side point: not all women have vaginas; don't down vote me). In tech we like to think that everything is a meritocracy but we see countless examples where company culture has made it difficult to exist as a woman. Think of the numerous complaints from women working at Uber circa 2016-2017. Or the thousands of high profile #MeToo allegations. Men being in the dominant and default in tech means it's easier to get away with crap like that. Ensuring that women are adequately represented means that type of stuff is harder to get away with. If more equal representation makes workplaces less toxic, then it's worth it for that alone.
- francasso 8y agoAll those despicable events are to be opposed and condemned. I'm favorable to chem. castration at the first definitive sentence of sexual assault. But here we are talking about something different. In order to justify this law, you would have to prove that the amount of women in boards of directors is so low mainly because of sexism by men. On that point I'm willing to concede that that is part of the problem in certain cases, but I'm not at all willing to accept that that is the only reason or even the predominant one. It would take a statistical analysis with numbers suggesting a causal connection to convince me.