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Originally Posted by The Swaggy P
I find this to be unfair to the male population, for if you are pushing for equal rights, in order to get females into office-based jobs like the ones mentioned above, you should also be pushing for more in the physical labor.
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My take on the diversity gap / gender gap was probably similar to yours when I was in high school, because it was based on the idea of a zero sum game. If a society is going to promote something, it must be ignoring something else, right?
The more experience I gain in the real world only shows me this couldn't be further from the truth. The number of opportunities available is not a fixed number, like it might be for an admissions office at a university. Growing a percentage of a population in engineering doesn't mean the rest of the engineering population needs to lose that percentage - the overall number can grow!
Applying it to this example, adding a girls-only event doesn't take away any other opportunity a boy might have.
Last point. In fields requiring a brain (creativity, critical thinking, etc.), diversity of thought is an admirable goal. If we can't approach a problem from every angle, we might not find the best solution. I don't have to think long to imagine life experiences that I have not and cannot experience simply because of my gender - and those are perspectives that I lack and cannot use in solving a problem. Imagine where the world could be and isn't because of the lack of diversity in engineering.