Sexes hold different interests

Article here. Excerpt:

'While there were several good points made in Friday’s article, “PSU addresses disparities,” one of the main focuses of the article — the number of tenured men and women — should not be the basis for determining equality. There are interest disparities between genders that lead to a numerical equality in some positions to be unreasonable. This seems to be overlooked in most situations. If there were 100 positions available in a field, and 150 men and 100 identically qualified women applied for those positions, the equal outcome would be that 60 men and 40 women get positions.

However, an outside eye could see that the system was biased towards men. The truth is that men and women cannot have identical lives. Men do not have to leave work to give birth, and generally women are the primary caregivers for children. That leads to a higher number of men in the workforce. If every profession expected an equal number of male and female employees, then any male would be disadvantaged compared to an equally qualified female. Similar disparities can be seen in athletics. Title IX requires equal funding for men and women in sports.

While that would look to create equality, consider this: Dave and Diane come from equal backgrounds. Both take up rowing in high school and have similar success. Both hope to row in college. However, there is no men’s NCAA rowing championship. That exists only for women, created in 1997 to help schools reach Title IX requirements. Is this equality? Ask Dave.'