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Surely - if this is your goal - then its better to focus on encouraging a 50:50 representative choice of candidates and humbly accept whoever the men and women
by throwaway210222 5y ago
Surely - if this is your goal - then its better to focus on encouraging a 50:50 representative choice of candidates and humbly accept whoever the men and women then chose to represent them?
You may just get a large group of competent women who are very popular to all. I can't see why it would be better for as you say - democratic idealism - to then decry that some incompetent men candidates didn't get the gig.
- lhorie 5y agoSure, in theory that could happen, but then you'd be able to explain the lopsidedness somehow. For, e.g. professions like nursing, the lopsidedness can be satisfactorily explained by gender preferences wrt roles related to human care. The elephant in the room with regards to leadership is all the stuff related to perception of competence in patriarchal societies, boys clubs (recall that in many places, wealth is somewhat of a prerequisite for campaigning successfully), etc.