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This is true across societies - there's so many more Indian or Russian women engineers than American or Swedish. One of the greatest luxuries of resources is t
by local_crmdgeon 3y ago
This is true across societies - there's so many more Indian or Russian women engineers than American or Swedish.
One of the greatest luxuries of resources is the ability to do whatever you want.
- tgv 3y agoIdk how many women choose an engineer's career nowadays in Russia, but in Soviet times, the choice wasn't free. Talent was exploited like a natural resource. Perhaps some of it spills over to today, perhaps teaching is very poorly paid. Being an artist certainly is. The American attitude since the late 80s seems to be summarized in the old quip: why be a physicist when you can be his boss?
- postsantum 3y agoThis is a well-researched topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
- tgv 3y agoI wouldn't call it well researched. Even the wiki link mentions various, half-contradictory theories, none of which is substantiated. Some of those aren't even theories, just a minor generalization of an observation, without any deeper explanation. The page is limited in its discussion, omitting phenomena such as gender variability, BTW.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoWhat evidence would you require to believe it, besides the presented? Or is your objection from ideology, and untouchable?
- tgv 3y agoI don't think it's realistic to expect evidence. Psychology, sociology, etc. don't have the methods to provide them. There are way too many confounds. Even if e.g. the idea "that women in less developed nations are more likely to choose STEM fields" were absolutely true, what could you do about it? Make life more miserable to force women to take up STEM?
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