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I was thinking less that they are "afraid" of political pressure, and more that responding to political pressure is one of the things that these committees do,

• michaelt 5y ago
  I agree with you somewhat, but I think there's an important distinction to be made. If a political decision-making process concludes "men account for more road traffic deaths than women, but we've decided that gender can't be taken into account when pricing car insurance" that's fine; the facts have remained the facts, and a political decision has been made by a political process. But if the same process concludes "men and women cause the same number of road traffic deaths" the process has gone off the rails despite the fact the outcome is the same because in one situation the facts have been acknowledged and the decision to act contrary to them made knowingly; while in the second situation that isn't the case.
  • leaflets2 5y ago
    Or if they sabotage the education for the women: give them a shorter drivers license education so they'll crash as much as the men