Well, it's a great example as Dr. Earl Haas patented the first tampons in the early 30s and nobody cared. He then sold the patent to a business woman that made it successful. So effectively a man invented it but failed to market it and sell it well.

> If you're concerned about bias in hiring, then eliminate bias. Do blind interviews and redact resumes, broaden your candidate sources. You don't eliminate bias by... introducing bias.

The "problem" is that when this purist meritocratic approach has been tried, it results in more white men being hired, not less. Therefore such approaches are swiftly cancelled, in favour of introducing deliberate bias on the basis of superficial characteristics. See here as a good example: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

>The "problem" is that when this purist meritocratic approach has been tried, it results in more white men being hired, not less.

What an ignorant and bigoted thing to say. Next your gonna say the same thing about Asians.

Meritocracy is blind to race and focuses solely on aptitude. The fact you don't like the outcome says more about you than about meritocracy.

There's a reason I put the word "problem" in scare quotes.

Ah I missed that detail, my apologies :)

> A 100% male company isn't going to invent the best tampon

I mean… a man did invent tampons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Haas

Granted there were previous, less good, versions