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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Gender Discrimination
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:50:37 GMT
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- Peter Nelson (nelson_p@apollo.hp.com) wrote:
-
- : Both the New York Times and LA Times News services reported
- : over the weekend that when Bill Clinton was choosing an
- : Attorney General he limited his search to only women!
- :
- : If my employer, Hewlett Packard, had an explicit policy of
- : only opening a certain position to one sex, or systematically
- : only considering candidates of one gender for a certain job,
-
- Sure it would happen at exactly the same speed, whatever the gender was?
-
- : wouldn't we be hauled into court faster than you could say,
- : "Zoe Baird"? (I hope so!)
-
- But what is being done is "acceptable" discrimination. (also called
- "positive" and "affermative")
-
- the terms "tit for tat" and "backlash" also sum up this attitude.
-
- :
- : Assuming these news reports are correct, I think it's outrageous
- : that the Clinton Administration is starting off with such a
- : sexist prologue. Not to mention the fact that the nation can
- : hardly be well-served by potentially denying half (or probably
- : more because most lawyers are men) of the otherwise qualified
- : candidates merely due to their gender.
- :
- : And what effect would this have on compliance with anti-dis-
- : crimination laws, knowing that the Justice Department itself
- : was run by someone chosen by a process that violates the very
- : statutes they are attempting to enforce?
-
- "All genders are equal, but some are more equal than others"?
-
- Maybe your politicians and law makes should go back and read your
- countrys constitution.
- (then maybe repeal all the discrimination laws you have, both the new ones
- as well as the old ones)
-
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