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Originally Posted by photon
Affirmative action should help overcome or remove those barriers until such barriers aren't around to need to be removed anymore.
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But how do we determine which gender disparities are caused by barriers and which are caused by more subtle socialization differences or even innate difference?
Why are teachers predominantly women? Systematic discrimination against male teachers? Of all jobs where we would want gender parity, wouldn't teaching be at the forefront? Especially in an era when boys are doing worse and worse than girls at every grade, and the gender gap in post-secondary education is getting wider and wider.
Should we be offering scholarships to make it easier for men to get into medical school? Women now make up 60 per cent of medical school graduates which, aside from any other considerations, is a major factor in the family doctor shortage, as women doctors work substantially fewer hours than male doctors and are much more likely to take extended breaks from their practice.