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ElboRuum

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2. Hmm...
Fri Nov 23, 2012, 05:12 PM
Nov 2012

It is often opined that equal outcomes are the "push" behind recruitment in professions, attending college, et. al. Now I've always been for equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes because equal opportunity can be enforced without utilizing artificial means to a general positive effect, whereas in order to guarantee equal outcomes, you almost have to introduce inequities within the system that can have unfortunate unintended consequences.

Yet here is a perfect opportunity to sue for equal outcomes in the teaching profession, however, since it is men who are underrepresented, crickets chirp.

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