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by scarab92 502 days ago
The problem is you’re clearly talking about this from the perspective of a personal anecdote.

If you look at the general experiences of a young men, you’ll see that they are discriminated against in university admissions, in early career hiring and in early career promotion.

This is justified by data points which average outcomes over different age groups. The result may be company wide gender balance, but when you break it down by age you see that the it’s not really a balance, it’s just discrimination against women in some cohorts and discrimination against men in others.

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Can you cite some of these data points and outcomes?
A quick Google search should turn up tons of articles on boys failing in education.

https://www.google.com/search?q=boy+education+crisis