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I agree that the times are changing. I just don't feel disadvantaged being a white male. Quite the opposite in fact. I used to do technical staffing for other companies only 4 years ago and was told on multiple occasions that they didn't want black people sent to interview (the code word for that is "diversity candidate" btw). We are making progress, and I am glad for it. But I just don't believe that men are getting shunted in the aggregate. I think if anybody has any portion of the deck stacked against them, it is certain minorities, and to a much lesser extent, women. Mostly though, the most capable and connected people are coming away with the brass ring. There are a whole other set of social injustices that impede certain people from being 'capable' by the time they should be entering the professional world, but that is a whole other can of worms.
On the first point, yeah, I don't think that men or women can have it all. You only have so much time, but it really depends on how you define 'having it all'. Women can be CEOs and have families. They can certainly have it all in that sense. But in doing so, they are going to have to make the same time-family sacrifices that men do.