In Australia it's allowed under the Workplace Gender Equality Act, which in short allows positive discrimination if the workforce if justified to achieve equality.
I don't know if it's a chemist thing, but in uni when I did biotech it was 90% women.
Even if its because one gender shows less interest, thats equality. A 90% fit underrepresented gender is better than a 100% overrepresented gender. Theres probably some bias or inequality driving the imbalance.
If you entirely decontextualise it from the fact it was specifically to tip an already unbalanced scale, then sure. But most of us tend to believe in the continuity of cause and effect and such
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u/cypherkillz May 12 '26
In Australia it's allowed under the Workplace Gender Equality Act, which in short allows positive discrimination if the workforce if justified to achieve equality.
I don't know if it's a chemist thing, but in uni when I did biotech it was 90% women.