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CMV: Gender equality (as a % of the workers) in fields of work isn't inherently a good thing

For example, if 80% of programmers were female because they were the best applicants who offered their skills at the lowest price, then why would I care if males were under represented.

I don't hear anyone saying, we need more female sanitation workers, electricians, plumbers, construction workers, etc.

The entire notion that there is SOME IDEAL RATIO of gender usually 50/50 in ant given field is unrealistic and arbitrary.

So if there is anyone who thinks we need more of any gender in any field, explain why, and try to change my mind. 

Try to explain how we need more women garbage workers and Ill probably change my mind.
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>I don't hear anyone saying, we need more female sanitation workers, electricians, plumbers, construction workers, etc.

Because society in general wants to automate out those positions. Instead of encouraging women to work in those fields, we are encouraging everyone to eliminate the need for them. Nobody celebrates having to destroy your body doing manual labor these days. We don't want people having to do that kind of work in general, so no we don't encourage women to do those jobs, but we don't encourage men to do those jobs either. The entirety of manual labor is frowned upon in general.


>The entire notion that there is SOME IDEAL RATIO of gender usually 50/50 in ant given field is unrealistic and arbitrary.

The problem with this argument is that it is first of all a strawman and secondly is pretty unscientific. Nobody is arguing that if a field has an *inherent, innate split* that something is wrong. What people are saying is that *too much has to go right for us to know the actual percentage.* If, after everything is studied and after its all said and done the  ratio isn't 50/50 then nobody really is going to have a problem with that. But today right now, we *cannot make that determination.* Culture and Sexism and a lack of opprotunity exist in general, and so its too difficult to measure in a vacuum the decision making process that lead to gender splits in specific fields.

Essentially given that we know that Sexism exists, there is some non-0 level of pressure for men to work one type of job and women to work another. *Clearly we are not measuring in a vacuum.*