"we did not try hard enough, we need more intervention". I am not a proponent of it.then why try at all? if we believe this goal should be achived then we should keep trying until we get there.
You do not fight discrimination by promoting it from another side
that is a reasonable argument, but plenty of counter arguments exist. some are being discussed on this page.
Oh, and in teaching it does not happen the opposite?
oh sure, however, teaching is an entirely different problem.
as a parent i want my children to be exposed to male and female role models (what teachers are to them) in equal measure. therefore for the sake of children i want gender parity in schools to be enforced by law.
but you could make the same argument with other professions that are dominated by one gender. nurses are probably a good example where men may not feel comfortable.
we can encourage people to change them if they want, not by shifting the cost to others
why not?
one question is, what goal do we want to achieve. the other question is, how do we achieve it?
what we want is gender equality, that is equality of opportunity (not necessarily equality of outcome)
so that means we want more opportunities for women in engineering. for that we need to understand what is keeping women out of engineering, and how can we get more women into engineering. (and then replay that for any profession and respective gender)
and if access to financial resources is a reason, then it absolutely makes sense to provide additional financial resources to women.
again, i have no idea what happened in norway. access to university is free in norway, so i don't know what they would need money for.
if discrimination by men is what keeps women out of engineering, then what we need to do is to get men to change. how do we get them to change? possibly only by exposing men to more female coworkers. but that means forcing the issue, and pushing women into engineering until men learn to treat women as equals.
i don't care about gender balance in engineering or any other profession (except teaching), but i strongly care about women and men being treated equally, and a large part of that is men learning to treat women as their equal and respect them professionally.
we should analyze real causes for things and why they happen or will keep happening instead of fighting them by transferring costs to people that have nothing to do with the problem
you are saying that as if it were a contradiction.
yes of course we need to analyze the real causes.
but we also need to find an approach to solve the problem.