Historically under the law, discrimination based on gender was prohibited. There was no provision for allowed discrimination based on gender (ie, prohibiting men from becoming teachers or nurses).
Now we are being told that it is OK to discriminate against men and the law only protects "marginalized" groups.
In elder care (especially with heavier elderly) a male nurse can be as good as a female nurse with lots of stuff including getting patients into and out of beds etc. This idea that it's morally superior to discriminate against men in these cases feels weird. Similarly in schools, many boys might benefit from some good male role models in these systems.
Anyways, interesting to see how things change from my "civil rights" days - it's civil rights 2.0?
Very much so, the female domination of the educational system is a disaster not in the making but one we're reaping the bitter fruits from. It is not only boys who would benefit from having good male role models, this is just as much true for girls. Unfortunately education is one of those fields where men have been pushed out and are made to feel unwelcome by women. The few men who make it all the way to the classroom often end up hen-pecked and unable to become the male role models needed.
The primary school in my village in Sweden (~450 pupils) has not had a single male teacher for more than a decade now, they pushed the last - very popular - one out with the pretence of him not having 'the correct papers'. Never mind that he single-handedly managed to organise several popular school-wide activities every year, never mind that those activities created a bond among pupils, teachers and parents, never mind that those activities are no longer organised and that tensions at the school have been rising ever since. He was a man in a female-dominated workplace who had to go, who was pushed out by the female head of school.
Come August my then 11yo daughter will no longer go to this school, instead opting for another school in a place much further away which has a more balanced approach.
Interestingly, he ALSO organized large group events (including community / school events). I always thought he was strict because when you deal with huge groups of kids - you kind of need to be to keep things going in a good direction. He was loved.
He did get run out of the school though because he was supposedly "racist". Not worth getting into, but I had to laugh out loud as an alumni. He put on cultural events in the school cafeteria during lunch. I'm sure the twitter army that came for him had no clue about his actual background or teaching. He landed on his feet (thankfully)!
Here's Google's EEOC statement: "Google does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.".
Man, Woman (or something else) is an enumeration of gender. It's very much a protected category, and looking up any number of Title IX cases winding through the courts will show that discrimination against men is an active area of litigation.
Work today to balance schooling and hacking communities so there will be balanced survivors 10-20 years on. And provide some kind of useful parental leave so the women can return after committing parenthood. Good, inexpensive child care would also be a big, big help.
Sure, shit like that is really hard to prove, but so is it for a woman looking to be in a male dominated field. Add that to how often discrimination is subconscious or accidental or otherwise not a purposeful, organized effort to harm a specific group of people and you run into the situation where we struggle to prevent it.
Quite how this squares with desperately redefining words to try to keep men out of those industries, and why men would want to enter them in the first place if they're such terrible jobs, I'm not sure.
They shouldn't need to play games like this if they actually believe what they claim. If anything, men working those jobs should be a benefit to women.
First-wave feminists had a point. Second-wave and third-wave feminists are just belligerent searchers-for-trouble who have done more harm than good.
“The laws enforced by EEOC protect you from employment discrimination when it involves:
Unfair treatment because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age (age 40 or older), or genetic information.”
History provides plenty of examples showing it can lead to some of the most inhumane behaviors we've seen.
I think laws are written something like: "employer cannot discriminate based on a person's gender". Which covers men.