The Death Row Book Club(longreads.com) |
The Death Row Book Club(longreads.com) |
I know there are calls to change the justice system, such as from the Innocence Project, which I support and recommend supporting, but nowhere near the level for working on areas of society that hurt women more.
I'm not suggesting putting more women on death row, but shouldn't there be some effort to approach equality in arrests, convictions, sentencing, and other elements of justice? More importantly on the burdens and social obligations we choose for our society to place on men as opposed to women? If you believe men are simply more criminal than women, do you only believe criminality is the only difference, that men are just worse than women and 100:0 is appropriate, or would you also expect other differences too?
No one cares that there’s mostly men on deathrow because they are men, and no one cares that there aren’t more women doing woodworking because woodworking isn’t as glamorous as working in STEM.
The call for equality is not a call for universal equivalence in all things. Never has been, probably never will be.
In this social model, females have less to gain from high risk behavior, since they are not selected based on material affluence, and a lot more to lose; a woman projecting a high level of self autonomy is labeled as promiscuous and a poor choice for what a female "should" optimize for: motherhood, a stable family, supporting her husband and so on. This goes on from early childhood, teaching girls to conform to social norms or be rejected, even (or especially) by other girls.
Meanwhile, "boys will be boys" and are expected to bend the rules.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/17/women-incarc...
Mission accomplished?
I often see the fact that people of color are overrepresented in the prison system presented as an example of their marginalization. If overrepresentation in prison is an example of marginalization, then it seems contradictory to say that overrepresentation of men in prison is not a first-rate issue because they are not marginalized.
Also, demand for programmers at the salaries programmers want to work for is not that strong. Many companies that want programmers want them for a lot less. This cheaper labor can be harder to find, but can be substituted in many ways such as using an “As a Service” offering or scooping up a pile of Indians from Kolkata.
If women faced prison as men do, justice and prison reform would happen faster, as happened in medicine when women became doctors. If people pushing for equality in high-pay, low-injury fields also pushed for equality in low-pay, high-injury fields, they would sound more credible as desiring equality, not just to advance personal interests. We'd also likely see injury rates drop.
Let the rates of arrest, conviction, and time served reflect the rates of crimes performed. If society puts burdens on men in a sexist way that lead to them committing more crimes, then change society to stop putting those burdens on men.
If men inherently commit more crimes than women independent of social pressures, justifying different outcomes, then either say that the only difference between men and women is that men are simply worse for being criminals, or say that there may be many differences that may lead to different outcomes in other places too.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-...
Demand for programmers is high even at high salaries (depending on experience of course). The average google programmer pulls in around $1 million in revenue, which covers their overhead well enough.