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Study after study shows white women are the biggest winners of affirmative action as it's used today but no one wants to admit that.  ~Asian American who went to MIT (I know, a stereotype).[/quote]

It would help to know what studies you're referring to or how they define affirmative action, but I suspect they are not talking about qualifications to get into college, given that I keep reading about how girls outperform boys in schools.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/girls-get-better-grades-boys-even-stem-subjects-study-finds-n912891
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades

I suspect this affirmative action benefit for white women that you mention is established in these numerous studies was about opening employment and promotional opportunities for women in decades past after centuries of undeniable employment restrictions and discrimination. And it benefited white women more than women of color because, white privilege is real in all aspects of life. I seriously doubt that affirmative action is the beneficial factor for women employment applicants now, given that women currently outpace men in college degrees.

But even assuming there were some affirmative action benefiting women in college admissions or elsewhere, do you think that's a bad thing? Would it be better to have gender imbalance? Do you think there is no social value to having more equal participation gender-wise?

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