Gender gap here is pretty striking! (Though I rolled my eyes at the NYT pretending to explode the liberal myth that class inequality is important -- as if there is any fucking risk of NYT and its readers being too convinced of that point!) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html …
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like, presumably there's a limit to how far you can fall by your 30s if your family owns a successful company and you get a job at the family company
That could well have something to do with things, but gender gap would still need explaining.
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My weird intuition is that gendered risk preferences and racialized inequality of social capital given equal financial and cultural capital might play some role
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Like, upper class men more likely than upper class women to go on paths where without a social capital safety net ('failing upwards' or at least failing laterally) you're likely fucked
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But I might be radically overestimating how easy it is to stay above-middle-class without doing anything if you start with all the opportunities money can buy but nothing else
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