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Not to mention that poorly thought-out equality laws that to less women being preferred over men reinforce the social stigma surrounding women and the stereotypes that label them as needy princesses or as inferior to men. Pay isn't everything, and we need to be sure that the laws aren't just getting women more money at the expense of harming them in the eyes of their coworkers and society. If equality is going to work out for us, as a society, then we have to show those who aren't convinced that it's about equal skill = equal pay, not just equal pay. What's important is that employers make their choices as though they didn't know the employee's gender (except in those rare cases where gender is part of the job requirement, like acting), not as though they're trying to comply with gender equality laws just for the sake of the law.