I have now been informed why accounting for choices women make abt which jobs they do & what hours they work is a mathematical error when looking at it statistically & I'm quite willing to accept that it is but this might just mean that looking at it statistically is not helpful
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The hypothesis is sexism systematically discourages women from going into the higher paying professions. The fact that the few who enter them anyway make as much as men does not disprove this hypothesis, as they must be particularly strong to have beaten the odds against them.1/
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Other evidence casts doubt on this hypothesis, tho: the more sexually egalitarian the society, the more stark the sex differences in occupation. If sexism were what is driving differences in occupational choice, then we would see the opposite relation.2/
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