Swedish politics below, ignore if you're not interested.
The current Swedish government has misunderstood the difference between ability and doing. I have to examples that are highly relevant today:
#1 maturnity leave. When having a child, the government wants the father to take a bigger part of the leave. All good this far, but they want to force this on the parents by reducing the time that the mother is allowed to stay home (with pay, that is). The problem is that the opinion is against them, and the two most common reason for fathers not staying home longer is the difference in income (the father earns more, thus loses more from staying home) and/or the mothers wants to spend more time at home when the kids are really small (we're talking about the first year here). So, the real issue is that a) people don't want this and b) the difference in pay. The latter is a completely different problem that needs to be solved in other ways. This is just reducing the symptoms, not treating the problem.
#2 The ruling side in Gothenburg (2nd largest city of Sweden), which is the same as the national government, provides a card that provides cheaper exercise - for girls. This is because girls are not training as much as boys. What they fail to see is that a) this could be because boys and gilrs have different interests and priorities and b) because the things considered training is more compelling to boys. Since all have the same choice and ability to try, there is no need to try to change the current situation. Nobody is disadvantaged in the current situation.
Phew... nice to get that off my mind. And remember, the important this is to provide the freedom of choice, not to make sure that the utilization is completely even.
