I agree that it's a very complicated issue. I feel from the treatment I've been through this past week that there's a lot of overt and covert discrimination in both groups, and even at interviews people may find that they do not get hired simply because they are women. There seems to be a need to have to prove themselves. I spoke to one woman and she said she got tired of 20 years of having to prove that she could do the job as well as a guy. And I'm not sure how you legislate that.
On March 17th, 2010. See this statement in context.