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The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination

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The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination
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RE: The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination
January 17, 2017 at 12:21 pm
(January 17, 2017 at 5:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 16, 2017 at 9:33 pm)CanOfMountainDew Wrote: "Firstly, sexism in government hiring is a given.  Find me a government structure anywhere in the world where males don't make up a whopping great majority of senior positions."

The second sentence - that is; your premise - does not necessitate the first - that is; your conclusion.

Linguistic flummery aside, can you give an explanation for the very nearly universal gender imbalance in government positions that is not rooted in sexism?

Boru

People make different choices. Dunno'. To just insert any explanation because nobody has a better one is a god of the gaps fallacy, though. You have to understand that that would be ironic for an atheist.
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RE: The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination - by CanOfMountainDew - January 17, 2017 at 12:21 pm

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