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>How is that not sexist? How is that not the sexism that's keeping women from advancing their careers in STEM academia?

Why should the academy structure itself so that women who choose to put their attention into their families do not have a career impact? If academic positions are necessarily zero-sum, it seems impossible to correct for this without seriously unfair negative externalities?

How is it that the biases inherent in collective decisions of individuals within society are the responsibility of the academy to correct for (that men tend to choose to focus on career and women on family)?



Maybe it helps if I knock the particulars out of your case:

Why should <organization> structure itself <in response to reasoned feedback from the humans who constitute it>?

Do you have some clear argument for why members of an organization aren't entitled to participate in shaping it?


I don't see how my point served to excluded a member of the academy weighing in. Note that my question was specific in the context of a zero-sum industry. I'm happy to see reasoned arguments that address this point.


You didn't expressly exclude it, but weighing it answers your question.

The academy should structure itself in the way its members decide it should be structured.




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