I agree, the solution to sexism, racism, and so on, is to ignore those categories and respond to everyone as individuals.
But this analysis is useful pushing back against policies that have as their basis the assumption that gender-based differences in personality do not exist, and set measures accordingly. Those are anti-individualist by nature.
In other words, there are many policies and some laws in place that care only about crude statistics about aggregate groups, and the idea that there could be real biological reasons that more women prefer (plucking something out of the air) teaching early education than higher education breaks those assumptions. Those policies are working against the real choice of the individual.
But this analysis is useful pushing back against policies that have as their basis the assumption that gender-based differences in personality do not exist, and set measures accordingly. Those are anti-individualist by nature.
In other words, there are many policies and some laws in place that care only about crude statistics about aggregate groups, and the idea that there could be real biological reasons that more women prefer (plucking something out of the air) teaching early education than higher education breaks those assumptions. Those policies are working against the real choice of the individual.