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David Dawson

What campaign should be run in it's place?

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Women into road laying, mining, offshore rig labour ... ?

Men into teaching, nursing, clerical jobs, doctors (check the figures), biology (doesn't this count as stem?)

What is very rarely stated is why it is important for women to achieve parity in particular subjects. The assumption is that parity is a good thing, but is this assumption correct? I'm not sure.

Systemic oppression because of who you are perceived to be as apart of a group isn't nice, but neither is the ugly rise of identity politics that is demanding treatment of an individual based on their self declared identity.

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of result. If there is inequality of opportunity, then that should be addressed, measuring equality of result is an extremely poor proxy

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