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A. There are only two impossibly simplistic solutions to the problem.

Can you think of a solution that doesn't fall into either of the categories I suggested?

B. Neither of them are workable in practice, so clearly the problem is intractable.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Many of them have conducted research and published on the topic.

This is exactly what you would expect when there's an illegal but obviously workable solution. Nobody ever got a job for saying "let companies hire whomever they please", so researchers have an incentive to make the impossible solution seem possible—if only we would listen to (and fund the research of) people like them. The results simply involve increasingly complicated ways of purging (or converting) assholes.




I can think of a solution: enforce the law regarding gender harassment. Face lawsuits otherwise. Period.


Companies facing gender harassment lawsuits need to purge assholes or risk going out of business. In other words, your solution reduces to solution #1.


Upvoted for elegance.




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