met with the associate dean at my top 10 finance dept. they other day and she intimated only offers will be made to women because of the current faculty ratio.is it possible, maybe, just maybe, that the current faculty ratio is low because women have been discriminated against for literally decades? and that current efforts are not trying to give women an advantage, but to simply *address* the *disadvantage* that women face? there is *so much* evidence that this is the case. if you're going to argue that it isn't, and if you're too scared to actually and ask and listen to your colleagues/classmates, at least read/watch the horror stories that yellen, athey, bertrand, and other top economists have shared of the *decades* of discrimination that they've put up with at their 2019 ASSA panel.
these policies are not designed to give women an advantage. they are designed to *address* existing *disadvantages*. this is not rocket science.
what are the existing disadvantages?