"We want equality! But only in x,y,z you can keep a,b,c lol"
And the claim was that women HAVE had harder times entering coal mining jobs, and for some time in some places were forebidden from doing so. (and that recently at the time of the claim in a certain area they were allowed to have that job.
However, I don't have a source for this, only a vague memory of what someone else said. As such, my memory may be faulty, and what they said might not have been entirely true. I don't know.
This is just something I thought could be potentially relevant.
I mean no one is advocating we get the sucide rate to 50%. If you want parity, you can't cherry pick and that means recalibrating society as a whole.
Which means questioning bad ideas like an equal. There are way to many people intresting in thought stopping for the sake of PR.
The parent's comment, while crudely phrased, did actually highlight some legitimate counterexamples to the "only women are discriminated against" narrative.
>Pay gap
>Women are just as capable
choose one, otherwise companies would pay the lowest price for labor. The "problem" (not even sure why a difference in what fields people like to go into is a problem) is reflected in open source statistics; women just don't like to code as much as men do.