No, it is pretty prevalent in my country (GER) too, although it is a bit more underhanded still. But quotas are already prevalent. Seems to be some form of kink

No, it is pretty prevalent in my country (GER) too, although it is a bit more underhanded still. But quotas are already prevalent. Seems to be some form of kink for racial discrimination. Gender equality is popular in pop-culture or mainstream, even if there are very few real barriers. It is mostly about making people feel welcome which I think is so subjective that these measures alone scare away more people than if you did nothing. There are also cringe worthy attempts to make language "inclusive" and gender neutral. I think it is restricted to certain academic faculties but it includes journalism sadly. It creeps into a lot of stuff though. What is strange is that proponents do not care about efficiency and effect of these measures at all, so it is probably more of a vehicle to stick it to some group they feel would deserve it. I do believe that people don't speak freely about it, but there is certainly also some effort to exclude those that demand inclusion from others by now because they are often plain bullies. At this point I would call that self-defense instead of discrimination. That word was already brought up to be redefined, so why not. So if you are some kind of uterus ultra, you won't come far either and voices cooled a bit down lately. In the workplace it isn't really a topic at all aside from advertising and PR, because it is mostly a media phenomenon.