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What exactly makes you comment as if woman gaining equality means men have lost something? Surely, in an even society, this is a good headline, unless you're pining for more patriarchal days.

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Equal opportunity (not equal outcome) is good. What I'm worried about is that this correlates with the wider societal trend of positive discrimination in favor of women (hence discrimination against men) and dismissal of men and their issues.

You should explore why you personally are worried about this speculative scenario happening. It could be a symptom of a deeper psychological issue.

If men graduating from college at a higher rate than women, or men earning more than women, is indicative of lack of equality, then wouldn't the opposite hold true - women graduating from college at a higher rate than men, or women earning more than men is indicative of lack of equality?

But it specifically isn't equality, even though there is a narrative that it is. A similar issue is present with kids where boys, who already tend to struggle at school more than girls, aren't encouraged as much and end up not trying as much as the girls do. You can see this in the gender discrepancy of college graduation rates

Equality would be “young women earn the same as young men”.

Unless you are banking on some cities favoring women while others favor men long term.

Which begs the question, why not bank on the current reality where some jobs favor women and some favor men, due to conscious personal choices made by those men and women?

To be fair, true preference (with true equality of opportunity) is hard to measure.

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