Kavanaugh explicitly has only female clerks in order to help resolve the systemic inequality
Well, that could certainly be one reason.
Well, that could certainly be one reason.
(I'm not saying it's good, personally I think it's a bad approach to a good goal. Would likely never be in my favour though, so pinch of salt etc.)
I agree with you, I don't see how affirmative action is compatible with it, whatever one's thoughts on it, but it seems to be an area nobody's wanted to touch. (Consider that you'd have to be the non-marginialised, thinking yourself wrongfully not-hired. Hard to imagine - in the UK - political appetite for it as a state lawsuit or regulation.) I wouldn't be surprised to see it blow up at some point though.