Usually I'm skeptical about cultural explanations for the lower percentages of women in certain fields. But, I worked in an Economics dept for 4 years, and the phrase 'toxic masculinity' is a fair description of the atmosphere in many Econ seminars.https://twitter.com/jimtankersley/status/1081542980777988096 …
Those guys doing physical work don't need to prove their masculinity through pretentious snark like too many male economists do.
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The way an intellectual male displays or asserts superiority is intellectually. . . .any research on this ?
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Did a PhD in finance at Columbia and I was startled when I attended my first seminar at the hostility. But it was explained to me that this came directly from the university of Chicago. They have a few more nobels than Yellen
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