It is absolutely just another form of discrimination. In the past people thought they had reason too. If you want compensatory justice and you are male, the on

It is absolutely just another form of discrimination. In the past people thought they had reason too. If you want compensatory justice and you are male, the only thing you could do is to resign and give your job to a woman. If you demand the same from others you are just as bad as someone that discriminated in the past. There is no higher motivation behind this. HR just follows laws though, so you should boot your legislators for this. Additionally it very much influences work relations for women far more negatively than for men, so they don't even profit from this aside very few selected high earning positions. But those will still have a problem with authority.