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This study quite clearly illuminates a structural bias:
- Men tend to be more available than women during odd hours. Why? Supposedly because women have to spend more time doing unpaid labor at home, such as chores, taking care of kids, etc.
- Men tend to prefer driving faster. This is a whole can of nature/nurture worms on its own.

So even when it looks equal on a surface level, because the algorithm doesn't discriminate by gender, these structures result in an unequal distribution. This is the part that one side cries itself hoarse over, and the other handwaves away as "personal choices".

It doesn't illuminate ANY bias by default. Like you said, whether it's "bias" or "choice" is a matter of perspective and debate, so to start with the claim that it is showing bias is to put the cart before the horse.

And they don't result in unequal distribution. They result in equal distribution for the labor performed. IF a woman worked the same hours during the same shifts, she would receive the same pay. It'd be like if I claimed a part time worker making less than a full time worker was "unequal distribution."
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