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How is it fair to treat human beings as instances of abstract categories rather than as individuals who possess their own agency?



In either case, how is what the woman did with this conference a good thing? On the one hand, she categorized people as "male or female" and on the other she created a situation where there were a higher proportion of women speaking at the conference than were even in the field.




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