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Canadian college's tenure track position open only for 'women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit' people

lwf said:
it could also be the case that hetero white men are the dominant demographic in tenured professors and that bigotry against these minorities by hetero white men is the reason they can't seem to compete at the same level.

Why would you suddenly assume the former when history proves the latter has been the case for pretty much all of white North American history?
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Not even necessarily bigotry in all cases, but also implicit biases. In a field heavily dominated a particular 'type' of person, we tend to subconsciously associate that job with people who look or talk or think like that type. Same thing can happen for men wanting to work as nurses or in childcare. Whether restricted criteria for particular positions or (even more dubiously) general quotas are the best way to address issues like those is up for debate, of course.

What's not really up for debate is the stupidity of the right-wing notion that reducing unfair disparities is the same as creating unfair disparities.
 
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