HR was a knee jerk invention in order to quarantine and occupy the women that companies were going to be forced to hire one way or another given that traditional offices had no such need for so many office employees, and women certainly weren’t going to want to be on the factory floor in the numbers necessary to achieve ‘balance’.

I remember the days when floor population numbered higher than office population; now the men have slowly been automated away and the offices are packed with women of dubious value.