Jun 13, 2019, 5:28 PM

@BlondeBot said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

@Coin said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

@BlondeBot said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

That said, comparing a volunteer duty to an obligation is like comparing apples to baseballs. The hypothetical man in this instance has no actual obligations that would cause him to miss work or suffer dire consequences.

I think that's part of @Ganymede's point, though.

Then I don't understand the point of saying a person with no obligations has a career advantage over a person with outside-work obligations. Obviously they do. It has nothing to do with gender.

The person who can show up more often, when asked, on short notice has the advantage.

Gany was using that comparison to showcase the sexist way men are excused for their extracurricular volunteering and women are blamed for their extracurricular obligations. It's right there:

There is more definitely an employer bias against people's outside commitments, and I believe they are highly sexist.