Re:If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the sam...
by peoplewindow on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:32AM
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For real? Women were excluded from combat because they are physically weaker than men and weak soldiers tend to get each other killed. That rule had a very concrete physical, medical and military justification.
I think if that's the best example you can find, it says a lot about my point. There are dozens of ways men are discriminated against in law. As you yourself admit, discrimination against women in law has been eliminated. This is not progress!
Yes, they have, because discrimination against women is still widely practiced. It's true that the scope and extent of discrimination in law has been almost entirely eliminated (one of the last major elements to fall being the military combat exclusion policy, lifting of which was fully implemented less than two years ago; given the significance of combat assignments in military career progression and the practical impacts of military careers on both elected and certain other high-level government positions, there are a lot of men in the military and government office today that are, now, benefitting from the effects of that direct, legally-mandated discrimination.)