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if it was originally 60-40 men-women, and the allegation is correct that only women are allowed to appeal their results, that's more like tipping the balance 40-60

Is your assertion that every other aspect of these women's employment is equal to or greater than the corresponding aspect for the men?

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You don't fix inequality over there by adding "balancing" inequality over here.

Name one single instance where systemic inequality was fixed at the root. I'll wait.

Slavery, gay marriage.

Is this a joke?

"Hey let's end slavery."

"No, I rather secede."

Civil war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kin...

Gentiles didn't have be be discriminated against in order for Jewish students to start doing very well in Harvard a few generations ago. The distributions flipped pretty much as soon as entrenched barriers such as quotas were removed. The same was true for East Asian students in elite universities decades later.

Oppression of the Japanese after WW2.

Now name an instance where it was fixed by giving them much better treatment than everyone else.

Affirmative action in the 90s. Millions of women and people of color were allowed to enter and advance in the workforce. The CEOs for McDonald and IBM crawled to the top after benefiting from minority leadership programs.

Yes, that's why female and black employment/compensation isn't a hot button issue at all any more.

The interned Japanese received 1.6 BILLION in reparations after WW2. Try again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

Those are the interned. I'm talking about how Japanese were treated afterwards. We don't give hiring preference to them and don't accuse companies without enough Japanese employees of racism. Try again.

Everyone defined their own metrics. Good talk everybody!

Was that a 'yes', or a 'no'?

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