I want to study gender because there are things to know about it and discovering/learning them is very interesting. This is the only justification one needs for studying a thing. HOWEVER...
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Having and using biological findings and empirical data on societal roles and norms can improve social policies, hiring policies, gender relations.
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Ideologues fear that if we discover where men & women differ on average and where we are the same, it will affect social policy in ways they won't like. It might, but only if you want absolute gender roles or no gender differences at all.
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Most often I hear from feminists who fear that acknowledging that men & women have different distributions of cognitive, psychological & behavioural traits on average will lead to discrimination against women. This is misguided.
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They point to people in the past & present who said/say that women are unsuited to responsibility in the public sphere & should just have babies but those people were/are wrong. Understanding biological gender differences reveals them to be wrong. Get out of the way.
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