- 10 Dec 2016 11:18
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That's a nonsense post. Quotas are mandates. Voting in a democracy has no mandates.
What I'm making an analogy to is qualification. In a situation where one person is clearly more qualified for a job, they still don't get the job just because of their gender. Does that mean that we should have mandates for voting? No, because that's not possible. But does that show that society doesn't actually operate on a meritocracy? I would say so. So people arguing that the job market is a meritocracy need to not take that as a given, because it's not a given that people only hire men because they are more qualified for the position and not because of cultural perception of men being better leaders or cultural notions on what the culture of a job should be--both of those being discrimination based on genetalia.
What I'm making an analogy to is qualification. In a situation where one person is clearly more qualified for a job, they still don't get the job just because of their gender. Does that mean that we should have mandates for voting? No, because that's not possible. But does that show that society doesn't actually operate on a meritocracy? I would say so. So people arguing that the job market is a meritocracy need to not take that as a given, because it's not a given that people only hire men because they are more qualified for the position and not because of cultural perception of men being better leaders or cultural notions on what the culture of a job should be--both of those being discrimination based on genetalia.