I'm concerned that men are underrepresented in nursing. It's a fairly remunerative career that I'm sure many men would enjoy if there were less societal baggage.
I hope you're just being snarky, or else you're missing the point entirely. The acknowledgement of "well its also hard for men in x" does not dismiss the fact that historically discriminated groups also deserve support.
The question is one of motive. If a person saying "we need to make things easy for women who want to do STEM jobs because of an imbalance in the numbers of men and women in these roles" but doesn't agree this is true for things like childcare or nursing then there is a question to answer as to why they don't think the imbalance is important in the later case.
It's not being snarky it's questioning whether the parent is interested in equality of opportunity or discrimination in favour of women. That's an important question in my view.
>"If a person saying "we need to make things easy for women who want to do STEM jobs because of an imbalance in the numbers of men and women in these roles" but doesn't agree this is true for things like childcare or nursing then there is a question to answer as to why they don't think the imbalance is important in the later case."
You're dancing dangerously close to a straw man argument here. Nobody has taken a position either way on childcare or nursing.
>"It's not being snarky it's questioning whether the parent is interested in equality of opportunity or discrimination in favour of women. That's an important question in my view."
It's an important question in everyone's view. My point is that it's rarely a valid point that $A should not be addressed because $B is also a problem; especially when $B is a rhetorical fringe case.
When I get in these discussions, invariably someone tries to boil it down to the following false dichotomy: Helping/encouraging/assisting $GROUP_A is discriminating/violating/hurting $GROUP_B. This is never necessarily the case.
I'm not being snarky, and I don't think this is about discrimination at all. It's about our culture directing people away from the jobs that best suit them. It's a problem that should be fixed for everyone.
