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Originally Posted by well named
If you refused to hire any men for your babysitting job solely on the basis that they were men and you think men are incapable of providing child care, then that would be employment discrimination, and so both illegal and
And of course no one in their right mind would do such a thing, which is why the legislation is absolutely pointless anyway.
Because you don't see the subtleties of reality, or because you believe untrue things about reality (that we are all equal, for example). In my opinion it's positively necessary for employers to discriminate. You wouldn't want a pedophile working at a daycare, you wouldn't want a tiny woman in a prison guard role, and you wouldn't want a 6'8", 350 lb man for a jockey.
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If you refused to hire a woman for your construction job because she was physically incapable of doing the job, that would not be employment discrimination, and is perfectly reasonable. If you refused to hire any women for your construction job, even ones who were able to demonstrate their physical capacity for the job, then you would again be discriminating both illegally and immorally.
If a woman could do the job on the same level of competence as a man, then discrimination would indeed be immoral. However, if a man can do the same job better, no employer in their right mind would hire the woman, and rightly so. Same thing goes for employers that hire women over men because they are better suited, which happens every day. And indeed if an employer refuses to hire a better qualified woman or man simply because of their sex/color/race/sexual orientation/religion/social justice cause 1678,
it is to the employers sole detriment.
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I've been around the block on this topic too many times recently to feel like doing it again. If you scroll back through this thread you'll find links, both to research on the wage gap as well as explanations about said research.
I can find research on google that the earth is flat or the moon landing didn't happen. It has no bearing on reality.
Last edited by DoOrDoNot; 07-05-2017 at 07:07 PM.