We often hear percentages of women increasing in sectors where they are underrepresented, but we too rarely go further back in history when these numbers actually collapsed, or were made to collapsehttps://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/ …
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The current state of things is often presented as a kind of natural situation that we're only just fixing now, but (in some cases, at least) it was the result of a deliberate intention
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There's an example in the French language, where we now debate the feminisation of job titles (there are many job titles that "officially" only exist in their masculine form). Turns that in medieval times, all jobs titles had a
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and it's only around the 17th-18th century that some people decided to reduce some job titles to the so-called superior gender, and only keep the masculine form. So again, it feels like we're only fixing now an issue that occurred naturally, when it's absolutely not the case.
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Very interesting, can you provide sources please? CC:
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In similar vein & if I understand correctly, in Greek there're fem versions of privileged jobs but they are derogatory, which is not the case for some working class jobs. Like you would say η πρόεδρος and not η προεδρίνα. Former is masc noun with fem article, latter both fem.
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That means: the (f) president.
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Look what just appeared in my feed:https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1101245703328813056 …
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