Hi Chris, I’ve responded to this somewhat in my response to Jackson above.
FWIW, I’m trying to avoid focusing on race questions here, because I think they’re pretty charged and racial equality isn’t an EA cause area in any case. Still, I think it’s worth responding to your comment that:
… the model doesn’t deal very well with the fact that Asians earn more on average than people who are white or an Asian woman may be better off in some ways than an Asian man (such as dating).
I actually think the model deals very well with this, as intersectionality would predict that being Asian + a minority + male would present a separate set of issues to being Asian + a minority + female. So fact that Asian women do better off in the dating scene is actually a pretty good example of intersectionality creating novel outcomes that might not be easily predicted by just stacking up disadvantages.
If, for some reason, discrimination against minority Asian women suddenly became an EA cause area, then people wanting to tackle the issue might do better trying tospecifically tackle ‘issues encountered by minority Asian women’ rather than just generally ‘reduce discrimination against women/​minorities/​Asians’.
Hi Chris, I’ve responded to this somewhat in my response to Jackson above.
FWIW, I’m trying to avoid focusing on race questions here, because I think they’re pretty charged and racial equality isn’t an EA cause area in any case. Still, I think it’s worth responding to your comment that:
I actually think the model deals very well with this, as intersectionality would predict that being Asian + a minority + male would present a separate set of issues to being Asian + a minority + female. So fact that Asian women do better off in the dating scene is actually a pretty good example of intersectionality creating novel outcomes that might not be easily predicted by just stacking up disadvantages.
If, for some reason, discrimination against minority Asian women suddenly became an EA cause area, then people wanting to tackle the issue might do better trying tospecifically tackle ‘issues encountered by minority Asian women’ rather than just generally ‘reduce discrimination against women/​minorities/​Asians’.