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    A policy or practice can be sexist even if women are not ... — Carmelics
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    A policy or practice can be sexist even if women are not explicitly targeted by it

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    • 1.Some policies affect women disproportionately due to a history of sexism rather than explicit targeting
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    • 2.The criterion for sexism is whether gender plays an important role in explaining the injustice, not whether women are explicitly targeted
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    • 1.Sexism, properly defined, requires discriminatory intent or explicit sex-based classification, following Wasserstrom's formal equality framework.
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    • 2.Expanding 'sexism' to cover disparate impacts without intent conflates moral wrongness with causal connection, undermining conceptual precision.
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    • 3.A policy causing gendered disproportion through morally neutral mechanisms—e.g., physical fitness standards—is better described as inequitable, not sexist.
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    • 1.Hayek and Nozick argue that patterns of outcome reflect aggregated voluntary choices, not structural injustice, unless coercion is demonstrably present.
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    • 2.If historical sexism produced present disparities through chains of individual choices, attributing sexism to current neutral policies misidentifies the causal locus of injustice.
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    An alternative, however, would be to grant that in practice unity among feminists cannot be taken for granted, but to begin with a theoretical common ground among feminist views that does not assume that sexism appears in the same form or for the same reasons in all contexts. We saw above that one promising strategy for distinguishing sexism from racism, classism, and other forms of injustice is to focus on the idea that if an individual is suffering sexist oppression, then an important part of
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