Holy crap , what a clusterfuck . The law will exempt from punishment a person who possessed a bullet button assault weapon prior to January 1 , 2017 , if specified requirements are metOh , so we ' re making ex post facto laws now ? Good job CA . Just another example that CA DOJ doesn ' t know what the hell it ' s doing . <| sep |> Frankly , I don ' t see how forcing more women to go into particular fields is beneficial , nor is pushing them to put off having kids . Where did you get the impression that anyone was proposing this ? I ' ve never seen anyone suggest this course of action , nor am I advocating for it here . For an example of a proposed policy that might helpSome other countries require companies to offer paid parental leave to anyone who has a child , not just the mother . This both encourages close parental involvement in child raising and the benefits thereof as well as equalizing the impact of parenting on the expected costbenefit analysis done when considering a new hire . Further , this removes the driving force behind potential discrimination against women for wanting to have children , which would impede the progress of even women who do not plan to procreate . Countries with such rules in place do tend to have a smaller gender pay gap . It seems likely that the benefits outlined above would be measured by a decrease in the gender pay gap in other countries that adopt something like it . Bear in mind that there are opportunity costs that are not considered . Things like choosing jobs with benefits , or good maternity leave with paternity leave not being offered by most American companies , or flexible schedules , or whatever else women may value more than raw income may be the source . Things like choice in education , both where they attend and what they study , may be the source . I agree that there are many potential sources , and almost certainly not one single source . I also agree that actual gender discrimination is essentially impossible to prove on the large scale , statistically . I will also contend that gender discrimination is not disproven by any of the data we have . Statistics can be misleading if misread , or if the bigger picture isn ' t examined . We ' re looking at one set of statistics , trying to draw meaning , and there is no commonlyaccepted conclusion . Inconclusive statistics shouldn ' t always lead to the same outcome as statistics that offer a conclusively negative result . Gender discrimination being impossible to prove on a large scale should not mean that nothing can ever be done to attempt to ameliorate it .