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[quote=Anonymous][quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]Yes, you did say it was a family's problem. And lack of maternity leave is sexist, since it penalizes the woman only.

"In any case, a lack of support for families isn't sexism. It's still a choice whether to have kids. If you don't want the career impact of having kids, don't have them or arrange beforehand for your mate to lead in childcare." [/quote]
If you want to take that as saying that it's the family's problem, that's fine - that's close enough to what I said.

You haven't explained why it's sexist for a company to decline to ameliorate a preexisting injustice.

Is it racist for a company not to engage in affirmative action?[/quote]

Yes, if a company has the ability to engage in some sort of action to recognize and prevent discrimination within their own workplace, then I would say that it is the equivalent of the sin of omission. Let me get at this in another way that you might understand. MLK Jr in his famous letter from a Birmingham jail, writes eloquently about how the greatest obstacle in the struggle for civil rights was not the KKK, but rather white ministers who failed to take a stand on the issue of race. By allowing the status quo to remain, by not condemning Christian leaders who upheld racist policies, white Christian leaders who failed to speak out were perceived by their congregations as tolerating racism.

For a company to do nothing when confronted by evidence of sexism or racism is indeed sexist. To not even properly investigate whether or not racism or sexism exists as a problem within the company is unjust.

I'm an academic, and when MIT was confronted with statistical evidence of institutional sexism, MIT had to act. For MIT not to engage in some sort of "affirmative action" (or whatever you want to call it) would be an injustice.[/quote]

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