.. Norway has labor productivity 35 percent higher per hour worked than the us does. They work a bit less, so the country as a whole is only 27% percent richer than the US is. Yhea, this is really a policy that dings economic productivity.
Also, basic logic: What is the contribution to the formal economy of a woman who can't find work due to gender discrimination?
Norway has labor productivity 35 percent higher per hour worked than the us does
Sigh. Do you bother to check your numbers?
In 2013 the productivity in Norway was 62.6 GDP/hour while in the US it was 57.5 GDP/hour (source). And I bet that's the consequence of the fact that a large part of Norway's economy is offshore oil and gas which are highly capital intensive and so generate very high productivity.
Note that in Sweden, a country with social policies broadly similar to Norway's but without the oil, the productivity is 45.0 which is noticeably lower than...
I remember seeing a talk of the concept of privilege show up in the discussion thread on contrarian views.
Some discussion got started from "Feminism is a good thing. Privilege is real."
This is an article that presents some of those ideas in a way that might be approachable for LW.
http://curt-rice.com/quotas-microaggression-and-meritocracy/
One of the ideas I take out of this is that these issues can be examined as the result of unconscious cognitive bias. IE sexism isn't the result of any conscious thought, but can be the result as a failure mode where we don't rationality correctly in these social situations.
Of course a broad view of these issues exist, and many people have different ways of looking at these issues, but I think it would be good to focus on the case presented in this article rather than your other associations.