While it doesn't apply specifically to men's rights (except maybe for us being less attractive hiring prospects), something occurred to me that would really fix a lot of problems with hiring discrimination.

It's really very simple.

You're at a company job faire. You see 4 young 20-somethings get pushed through before you. They don't even have 7 years of work experience (possibly even between them), let alone industry-qualified experience.

Your marriage to a foreign national comes up in the interview, and all the sudden your silver-haired Karen-cut interviewer gets a sour look on her face as the interview comes to a grinding halt, and she starts hurriedly scouring your application for any reason to get rid of you. Ah-ha! You have a gap in your work history that ended 7 years ago.

Now for the record, you should always say you signed an NDA and you're not at liberty to discuss the unlisted time period. Or find any protected excuse.

But, in this age of mandatory background checks, let's be perfectly blunt about why HR doesn't like to see gaps in your work history: it's because they love to see gaps in your history.

It's a culturally expected reason for them to scapegoat for what can be perceived as discrimination.

So, my proposal is simple: legally ban employment gaps as a valid excuse to not hire someone. Corner HR to where their only excuse is that someone else was better suited to the position, and make sure that the rationale behind their decisions is now falsifiable.

Make HR auditable. Require them to save all applications on file by batches of time periods where they considered and interviewed. Then all their hiring decisions must be based on the merit of the candidates and the quality of the work time they committed to.

Is this not an elegant solution?