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Kinda gets it half right. What it misses is that orgs crank up the natural “masculinity” knob because they haven’t built any alt mechanisms to encourage smarter risk-taking. It can in fact backfire (“masculinity contest” of risk aversion, as in “blue-lives-matter-more policing)
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The four norms that make up hyper-masculine cultures s.hbr.org/2EfJMiV
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Increasing stereotypically masculine behavior is easily the dumbest general mechanism for encouraging risk-taking. It’s the masculine equivalent of using sexy women to sell things other Han sex in ads/retail. Iirc some recent research showed that doesn’t work either.
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In a way, looking at this issue from a gender/diversity perspective unnecessarily muddies things. The article gets that right. Stereotypical masculinity is an adaptive trait for *human* orgs. Trying to curb it to fix gender or majority-minority relations is misguided.
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...kinda like changing basketball rules to improve tall people/short people relations is misguided. You just need more sports that suit more body types. Analogy doesn’t work that well though, since no modern work is as precise a fit to “masculinity” as basketball is to “tallness”