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Employment practices that reward workers who can travel are sexist in contexts where women are children's primary caregivers and cannot travel as easily as men

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1.Women are children's primary caregivers in many contexts and therefore cannot travel for work as easily as men
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2.Employment practices that reward those who can travel create a differential disadvantage for women
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3.That differential disadvantage is due to prior sexist practices regarding caregiving roles
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1.Employment practices that correlate with protected characteristics are not inherently discriminatory if they are genuinely job-relevant and applied neutrally to all applicants.
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2.Labeling a neutral practice 'sexist' because of upstream social inequalities conflates structural causation with institutional culpability, misidentifying the appropriate target of moral criticism.
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3.Wertheimer's baseline problem in discrimination theory holds that we must distinguish between making someone worse off than a just baseline versus failing to correct a pre-existing injustice caused by other agents.
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