I think if I knew that I could trade “we all obey some slightly restrictive set of romance norms” for “EA becomes 50% women in the next 5 years” then that’s a trade I would advise we take.
That’s a big if. But seems trivially like the right thing to do—women do useful work and we should want more of them involved.
To say the unpopular reverse statement, if I knew that such a set of norms wouldn’t improve wellbeing in some average of women in EA and EA as a whole then I wouldn’t take the trade.
Seems worth acknowledging there are right answers here, if only we knew the outcomes of our decisions.
I think if I knew that I could trade “we all obey some slightly restrictive set of romance norms” for “EA becomes 50% women in the next 5 years” then that’s a trade I would advise we take.
That’s a big if. But seems trivially like the right thing to do—women do useful work and we should want more of them involved.
To say the unpopular reverse statement, if I knew that such a set of norms wouldn’t improve wellbeing in some average of women in EA and EA as a whole then I wouldn’t take the trade.
Seems worth acknowledging there are right answers here, if only we knew the outcomes of our decisions.