[AnIdiot]

Of course that assumes you can select the best candidate from a pool. Feminists argue that there is bias that prevents this. However studies on the gender pay gap reveal that there's very little bias and most differences can be explained by education, experience, job choice, hours worked, etc. More recently psychological differences between men and women have been shown to contribute to the pay gap.[1]

My opinion is that affirmative action is naive and that society is better off to strengthen meritocratic hiring. Removing names from CVs may help women slightly but there's no reason to believe that men and women would achieve the same outcomes given equal opportunity.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/oep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oep...

[ncphillips]

Why assume technical skill in one area is the only variable in determining merit?

[AnIdiot]

I didn't do that. Merit is meant broadly to encompass many things.