EQUALITY ONLY EVER WORKS ONE WAY

I saw this most excellent article recently.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/female-doctors-superiority/511034/?utm_source=atltw

Actual scientific litterature showing that women are measurably better than men at taking care of vulnerable, sick people? As a man, this makes me full of joy. Not only does it confirm my lifelong prejudice that women have more empathy than men (who have more systems-oriented brains), but now we have a way of actually saving more lives and making peoples' lives better using this knowledge.

Now that we have actual credible evidence that female physicians are better at their very important jobs (only, you know, saving lives), I can't wait for society to start discriminating towards female applicants in universities, and to start paying practicing female physicians their due. If women do as good a job, they should receive equal pay. If they do a BETTER job, by all means give them higher pay.

Buuuuuut....

There's a major problem with western society at large (and you see me coming from a mile away), which is that whenever a situation like this occurs but with the genders reversed, it becomes sexist misogynistic barbaric forbidden knowledge. If the same study had shown that men save more lives and cure more illness, there is simply no way it could have been reported accurately. The media would be trying to either hide it, spin it in a spectacularly dihonest way, or blame the results of the study on russian hackers. (Ba-dum PSSH). This needs to stop. Just as this study needs to come out, I need to be able to say "I expect male pro hockey players to be paid more because they're better at it and draw a hundred times more fans and bring in a thousand times more money than female pro hockey players" without being crucified and called every name in the book. We need to be able to celebrate, instead of shunning, the strenghts and accomplishments of BOTH genders

It might take a while to bring this idea back to the front of public consciousness, but men and women are DIFFERENT. They have different biology, different brain chemistry, different priorities, values and tastes. Men are not better than women in any absolute way. Woman are not better than men in any absolute way. But not being better is not the same thing as being identical.