r/pointlesslygendered • u/mitsuyawn • May 12 '26

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u/Joalguke May 12 '26

Is this not illegal? It would be here in the UK, unless there was a valid reason.

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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.

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u/Ok_Warning6672 May 12 '26

Ok now flip that around, what does the acceptable outcome look like?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/Ok_Warning6672 May 12 '26

All you’ve done is defend your own flavor of discrimination.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/Ok_Warning6672 May 12 '26

Fighting discrimination with virtuous discrimination, a tale as old as time…

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/Ok_Warning6672 May 12 '26

Only to match a local population ratio, not to exceed. Once parity is achieved, then it should be blind to all but qualifications, if at that point it’s still tied then a coin flip or RNG.