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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by foldr on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:57AM (#21788864)
>Women, being in the middle [in terms of power and influence], are exempted from conscription

This is just a wrong analysis. Women didn't get our of conscription as a result of their power and influence. They were exempted from military service because almost all men, across all classes, were opposed to women serving in the military.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by belorn on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:33PM (#21793160)
And this is the point where we disagree. Women didn't get conscription because they are not seen as expendable by rich men.

And you are wrong that almost all men, across all classes, were opposed to women serving in the military. Armies that are created by rich men at the top looks very different to those created by lower classes, such as resistance movements in Europe during world war 2.

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