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  • Nitpick: From the Australia link, what is women-only is not the faculty positions but the selection process. The difference? When the women that take these positions retire, if it has been achieved a degree of parity enough so that no further affirmative action is needed, then those faculty position would be open both to men and women. Commented Oct 22, 2016 at 17:53
  • @SJuan76 to someone not familiar with the intricacies of affirmative action law, I don't understand the difference. Seems surprising that it would be okay to say we are going to give the job to the white man now but when he retires we promise we will give it to a minority. Commented Oct 22, 2016 at 19:46
  • The difference is that there is no claim that the characteristics of the published job make it fit only for women (as in "only women are good at teaching integral calculus"). It just happens that they want to increase femenine proportion and the next job offer they have is that one. Commented Oct 22, 2016 at 20:18