It says that but it's not that women choose lower stress jobs. Just a different kind of stress. Children & sick people are stressful.
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That's unfortunate you feel that way about women. I think women can add a new dimension to things.
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With proper training, women bring a fresh perspective. Some also believe in biological or social differences that benefit business.
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What fresh perspectives? Science tries to reduce the impact of perspectives (bias) so it can get at what is true.
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We don't want male and female perspectives on, say, physics. We want to reduce such human error as much as possible & find out what's true.
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Back to the original problem: Women are getting less money in general but getting ~ same money for comparable work. How to solve?
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Where's the problem? That's like saying men who work 40 hrs/wk at retail make less money than ones who work 80 hrs/wk as a Fortune 500 CEO.
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Women choose lower paying jobs and drop out of workforce to rear children. Ways to help pay them more: choose higher paying jobs & coparent
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Ah. But what if that’s not the main argument? What if the idea is that the best STEM-optimized minds who are not currently in STEM are mostly female or other non-traditional groups? Diminishing returns on male minds could be a powerful argument.
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I'm not sure how to evaluate that. I've not seen any claims that female minds are the best STEM-optimised & usually people who want to even up representation deny that such a thing could be true. It would be a better argument tho.
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That's not the point he was making. Rather that most of the Male STEM optimized minds already work in STEM so the largest group of STEM optimized minds that don't already work in STEM are not males.
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Oh, I see! That makes more sense from a cultural constructivist viewpoint & societies which do limit by gender do limit their pool of talent to their detriment. Of course, there is very little reason to think we live in one.
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Maybe there isn't but there are measurable benefits to our Society in getting those STEM optimized minds not already in STEM to be properly incentivized to work in the field.
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That's why we did that. Women know their own minds. If they don't want to do STEM, that's fine too. They're more likely to have other skills too and more choice.
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I think the point is that the current incentives aren't sufficient to bring enough STEM optimized non-males into the field.
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Might have to accept that. Gender differences exist. We have trouble getting enough male nurses too. Ultimately, I am a believer in the rights of the individual to pursue their own fulfilment so cannot support pressuring women into STEM (or men into nursing)
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Science doesn't gender. Women and men will discover the same facts. Only thing is diff interests, importance of which declines over time.
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