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You don't balance an unbalanced seesaw by putting the same amount of weight on both sides
by lentil_soup 8y ago
You don't balance an unbalanced seesaw by putting the same amount of weight on both sides
- apearson 8y agoEquality of opportunity vs equality of outcome.
- krastanov 8y agoGiven how short your comment is, I am not quite certain what you are trying to say. However, in my experience, whenever somebody complains about "equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome", they willfully overlook a lot of factors that would be playing into the "opportunity" part of the equation.
- lumberjack 8y agoThis is exactly the problem. You think in terms of "balancing a seesaw", but there is no reason to believe that in the complete absence of discrimination, the gender ratio will be 50:50.
- lentil_soup 8y agoUntil we find any evidence that says there's something intrinsic in women that stops them from working and/or performing at the same level as men in physics research I think it's safe to assume the ratio will tend to that.
- jsjohnst 8y agoConsidering the population is not 50:50 on gender... ;)
- manigandham 8y agoThere's no need for arbitrary "balance". Let people do what they want, and make the process as fair as possible. Anything else is just enforcing some ideaology or another.