one of the missing ingredients in this discussion is that it's not really about the profession-- coding, tech, science, etc, rather 1/n
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2/n the author's argument is really about whether genders are drawn to conditions in which those professions exist, i.e, are prestigious
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3/n...have inflexible hours. In Russia, it seems women are more involved as physicians, but it's not particularly lucrative to do so...
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4/n https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235590/ … (so this part is cultural at least). But there's a feedback question involved.
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5/n If, in U.S.,coders were seen as low-level & those good at empathy/working with people were managing, would men distribute differently?
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6/n it seems the bio-social interface is extremely complicated. The google doc a bit 'simple' (technically speaking) in this respect.
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7/n in STEM, I still think cultural playing field has not been leveled out sufficiently, & suspect bio interest expression should be small
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8/ there's a lot of discussion in our field at every level of the hierarchy- biases in selling STEM to children,harassment in male-dominated
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9/n professions (which isn't symmetric with female-on-male harassment in female dominated ones), tenure track demands, etc. These still real
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10/n the bigger part I agree with is we need a more robust model for navigating these discussions. Intellectual humility is one ingredient..
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I'm sorry, Chris. You're trying to make a complex, nuanced point whilst I'm getting dozens of tweets & my brain is rapidly dying.
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