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Re:No, I Don't Want a Ticket for the Women's Luncheon by shantanubala on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:06AM (#5643628)
Yup, I was agreeing with you -- I probably should've made it clearer.

I just wanted to point out that people sometimes confuse "sexism" and "imbalance" -- a poor gender ratio doesn't imply sexism, and a good ratio doesn't get rid of sexism.

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Re:No, I Don't Want a Ticket for the Women's Luncheon by subsystem on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:13AM (#5643646)
"[...] and a good ratio doesn't get rid of sexism"

I'm not so sure, I think diversity in general takes away a lot of lazy discriminatory behavior in the long run.

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