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0 pointskefka12y ago0 comments

So, if I can show (adverse) differences in opportunity, then affirmative action for women would be accepted?

  http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/07/14/high-price-of-being-born-female/  - Covers many topics on lack of women's income.
  http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070130.htm - "White fat women need not apply. Where is the White Fat guy study?"
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherhood_penalty - Penalty any woman pays when they choose to have a child. Affects socioeconomic and educational basis negatively.
  http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/06/18/the-motherhood-penalty-the-pay-gap-between-working-moms-and-childless-women/ - How about from the WSJ, instead of Wikipedia?
  http://phys.org/news205501664.html - If you do have a child, or cannot get easy access to birth control, the poorer you are the worse your income disparity will be.
  http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents - Scroll down.. Really?

Well, hmm..

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chrisrhoden12y ago

If you can show it to the legislature, yes. In some of these cases (like the motherhood penalty), AA laws would likely not help but alternative legislation has been considered.

I think we agree that something should be done. I was addressing your specific comment which suggested that the problems faced by poor black americans are the same as the problems faced by upper-middle-class white female americans.

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0 pointskefka12y ago0 comments

So, if I can show (adverse) differences in opportunity, then affirmative action for women would be accepted?

  http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/07/14/high-price-of-being-born-female/  - Covers many topics on lack of women's income.
  http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070130.htm - "White fat women need not apply. Where is the White Fat guy study?"
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherhood_penalty - Penalty any woman pays when they choose to have a child. Affects socioeconomic and educational basis negatively.
  http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/06/18/the-motherhood-penalty-the-pay-gap-between-working-moms-and-childless-women/ - How about from the WSJ, instead of Wikipedia?
  http://phys.org/news205501664.html - If you do have a child, or cannot get easy access to birth control, the poorer you are the worse your income disparity will be.
  http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents - Scroll down.. Really?

Well, hmm..

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chrisrhoden12y ago

If you can show it to the legislature, yes. In some of these cases (like the motherhood penalty), AA laws would likely not help but alternative legislation has been considered.

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