Wrong to say women are ‘entitled’ to STEM jobs

Your recent editorial on women in STEM fields poses the question: “Just how many of the science and technology jobs are women entitled?” The correct answer to this question is “zero.”

No one should be entitled to anything based exclusively upon individual physical identity characteristics. One cannot simultaneously condemn and embrace sex-based discrimination.

A more principled stance would be to support the removal of barriers to participation in STEM fields and let the demographic outcomes fall where they may.

Brad Sharpless, Reisterstown