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    Challenges→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

    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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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Institutional culpability(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    The responsibility or blame that belongs to an organization or system itself, as opposed to the individuals working within it.
    Structural causation(as used in social philosophy and ethics)
    When a problem is caused by how a system is organized or designed, rather than by individual people's choices or actions.
    Target of moral criticism(as used in ethics)
    The person, group, or thing that deserves to be blamed or judged for doing something wrong.
    Upstream social inequalities(as used in social and political philosophy)

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