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> Every human being, man or woman, has unique challenges. And many people get heaped additional challenges by virtue of their birth group - challenges that are
by WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> Every human being, man or woman, has unique challenges.
And many people get heaped additional challenges by virtue of their birth group - challenges that are commonly supplied by people whose birth group started at the lowest difficulty level.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoYes. Including homelessness, disease, religious background, language, distance from an opportunity, nationality, sexual orientation, financial stability of their parents, lack of lottery winnings or inheritance, mental acuity or lack there of, mental disorder, physical deformity, and indeed sex. And combinations of those and etc.'s that I didn't think of. Everyone has countless reasons to fail. Sex is by far among the smallest of those reasons.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> Sex is by far among the smallest of those reasons. By smallest you mean over 50% of the population.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoYes, exactly. And therefore it has the least impact on the individual. Giving everyone a dollar is the same as giving no one a dollar. -Econ 101 Compare that with say, severe anxiety, inability to take tests, low IQ. Or even just lack of interview experience, and never asking for a raise. These last two dramatically affect income and are true of a strikingly large number of women compared with men.[1] Is it possible that women aren't asking for raises because everyone keeps telling them that they need "special" help (implied inferiority)? That they won't get raises, so why bother? I think it's a factor. I think your argument, while well intentioned, might be causal in preventing women's success. [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/women-are-still-not-asking-for-pay-rises-here-s-why/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/women-are-still-not-a...