It’s not a settled issue on which all economists agree.
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Given that this is consistent with differences observed all over the world, in babies too young to have been socialised out of any interests, in other apes, to manifest far less in lesbian & gay people and to be experienced as a change by trans people taking hormones...
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...it does seem likely that men and women are not cognitively & psychologically identical and that no matter how much you offer women opportunities to make the same choices as men in the same numbers, we still might decline to do so because men are not the default humans.
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It seems likely but the actual research seems to indicate that we know less than we think about what those differences actually are, objectively, and what we think we know is often wrong. Again, we need more and better studies.
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It would be a good start if we were allowed to mention the masses of evidence we already have without risk of getting fired like Damore. It's not that the info isn't out there & replicated time and time again.https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-most-authoritative-review-paper-on-gender-differences/ …
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Indeed. However, if STEM were generally hostile to women I'd certainly want to change it. We have (amazingly) ~50% women engineers on my team. I would not tolerate a culture of gender-based hostility.
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Yes, of course. There is always the danger if society keeps telling women STEM is hostile to them, they will believe it.
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This is what happens when you think everything must be culturally constructed. That humans are the only animals not to have sex differences or that the brain is the only organ which hasn't evolved them.
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You know, what's ironic is I really do want more women in engineering. It's nice to have a mix of genders, and women do great work. I could just do without the self-flagellation for my toxic masculinity and mea cupla for my hostile, misogynist workplace (assuming that fixed it).
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It's madness to think this is not the case and that there is not huge pressure to get women into these roles. Only denial of gender differences on average can cause this insistence that it is STILL hard for women to get employment.
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I mean it's particularly pronounced at early stage startups. Our applicants skew like, 90% male.
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And those trends ought to be examined and studied, by all means.
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Yes, they should. This blank slate thing has been the orthodoxy for a good half a century now. It's time for it to be challenged.
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The only thing I'm convinced of is that people on all sides of the debate will be surprised (and probably displeased) by the results of such investigation.
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