Usually conservatives will respond to this by trying to flip the above statement and say that the real problem is liberal hypocrisy.
In what way are efforts to compensate for systemic mistakes in recruitment equivalent to "scapegoating"?
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I'm assuming that there are well-known systemic mistakes that are easy to understand without analyzing the statistics. An easy example in academia: tenure clocks coincide with timeframes in which women commonly have children, making it harder for them to get tenure.
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It's easy (and reasonable) to conclude that there is no intrinsic rationale for that coupling and therefore the policy should be changed to accommodate different life schedules better. It would be incorrect to describe that as "scapegoating" men.
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Do you generally have a problem with correcting mistakes that have a disproportionate (bad) impact on some demographic because it will mean that fewer members of the demographic without the problems (in aggregate) will be represented?
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Don't you think it's within the purview of a company to identify its own business mistakes and correct them? For example, if a company noticed it was only recruiting at women's colleges, and therefore was losing out on qualified candidates, wouldn't it be fine to fix that?
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Or do you think the government should investigate and punish companies for correcting what their management believes are business mistakes of this kind?
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