Which Gender Differences Are “Disparities?”
"I wrote recently that you can measure any two things, and in all
likelihood they will be different. If you have an agenda, you can call
this difference a “gap” or a “disparity” and demand remedial actions by
government. Whether differences between demographic groups are deemed
significant depends on politics, not logic. Thus, to take one of
countless examples, no one protests the fact that Asian-Americans earn,
on average, significantly more than whites, and no one demands
government programs to help whites narrow the “gap.” Why not, if all
gaps are the result of discrimination?
At the Washington Examiner,
a young woman named Madison Breshears articulates these and similar
points beautifully, drawing on her own experience as a ballet dancer, a
female-dominated field."
[Power Line]
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