>>>>If what you say is true then the community also expects women to graduate from higher education with a serious debt load. If a woman has the drive, talents or assets (literally) to reduce that debt load, more power to her.
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>>What about the prejudice that women in power got there by sleeping their way to the top. Generations of strong women battled those attitudes and now the good work risks being unraveled if women who should "get" these realities prefer to present their sex as a saleable item. We do need to watch out.
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>Not to forget the generations of college students where the women had to be somewhat smarter on the average to enroll, as they weren't dragged in by sports coaches.
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IMO that battle is largely over, at least in the U.S. I have two daughters and they have grown up in the belief that they have every professional opportunity men have, if not more. This belief comes not only from their parents but from the world around them. I don't believe they even quite realize how different it was when women were often actively discriminated against. Now a majority of U.S. college students are female. A majority of med school students. A majority of law school students. Every year there are more women in Congress. Every year there are more female CEOs (although there is still a long way to go there). Female movie directors. You name it.

>On another front, I felt a bit generous yesterday and wanted to treat myself with an electric bike. They are just about getting to the point where they may be usable, and the price is becoming affordable. So I visited the shop, took a look at what the guy offers, found a few details that he didn't have on his website (still wary of guys who offer scarce technical detail when selling machinery), and since it's my wife who'd use it more than I would, she visited the shop this morning. The guy was far less talkative, gave even less of technical details than yesterday and generally sucked in the politeness department. We won't buy.

There are always going to be throwbacks, slow adopters. In this case it's especially disappointing given that this guy is a salesman. Doesn't he realize he is needlessly driving away customers with outmoded attitudes? That's money straight out of his pocket. But over time those people will continue to wash out of the system.