Wow. So much to deal with and so little time. In short, though, you appear to maintain that discrimination/harassment are an established fact and your support for that contention is anecdotal conversations you have “every day.” I can’t help but wonder what kind of “pity me” parties you attend. Here’s anecdotal evidence for you: For 22 of my 32 years as a lawyer for a fortune 100 company I practiced, among other things, civil rights law, both investigative as well as litigation. During that time there were literally thousands of allegations of sex discrimination/harassment. Do you know how many were actually revealed to be true under the spotlight of intense investigation/litigation (you know, where allegation and proof are supposed to come together)? You could count the number on the fingers of one hand.
But we had lots of women who, after absenting themselves from the workplace for between 5 and ten years (to have a child and until schools took over daily care) expected to be treated the same as their male classmates from college who, by that time, had gained an equivalent amount of experience. One woman (in a factory setting) actually claimed (and sued for) sexual harassment based on nothing more than a man had “looked at her” when she walked past him. This would have been one of those who when asked in one of those media focus groups “who here has ever been sexually harassed” would have raised her hand and gone into your books as demonstrating just how prevalent sexual harassment is in the workplace. I doubt frankly you have a statistically significant sample of “proven” instances embodying your parade of the horrible treatment against women.
The reason that men or women choose a particular career path is unimportant. That men don’t choose education or nursing because it is considered “woman’s work” doesn’t matter. The reason more women don’t study STEM at university doesn’t matter. The fact is they don’t make that choice and consequently voluntarily exclude themselves from that particular opportunity. There is nothing inherently unfair about the opportunity itself but if you don’t play you cannot win. Of course, you will next say that women have been denied the choice itself because they were not sufficiently encouraged and I would bet that contention would be about as well founded as the other nonsense you spew. There are countless examples of women who have made that choice and who have climbed the ladder (isn’t the CEO of General Motors a woman?). There aren’t as many, because few make that choice, but the fact some did make that choice belies the notion that they were somehow prevented from doing so.
Basically, what it amounts to is you have decided that sexual discrimination/harassment is an American epidemic based on skewed and incomplete statistical analysis and unfounded anecdotal stories. Hardly enough to convict let alone convince.
