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I guess we will never know because we live in a extremely sexist society who views a woman in a business suit as a bitch but a man as a leader.
https://hbr.org/2018/05/the-different-words-we-use-to-describe-male-and-female-leaders
This is the real puzzle not the belief that women simply don't want high paying leadership positions.
How many men are supportive of male librarians or male grade school educators. This cuts both ways preventing good men from being part of professions they could add a lot to.
We can't fix this by ignoring it.
99% of them don't give a shit, at all, either way. Same for women, as well.
It was found that in areas of the world that have made much more progress than the US in the are of overall sex equality, that the skews in professional positions are HIGHER, not lower (e.g. engineers are even more male-skewed, nurses are even more female-skewed, etc.). Men and women, when given the free choice to pursue whatever they want professionally, do not make the same choices in aggregate. That is the fact of the matter.
It's literally called the "gender equality paradox" because so many people naively assumed that men and women are exactly the same, blank slates that only differ in any way because of societal pressures, and that only sexism (e.g. society telling men to do job X and women job Y) could be the reason that it's not an exact 50/50 sex split across all jobs/careers. The research that discovered the exact opposite was true flabbergasted them, but the facts are what they are, like it or not.
The fact that those skews become MORE pronounced in societies with MORE equality completely obliterates that assumption.
Everything you said was pretty much nonsense. Societies that have tackled gender inequality see much better representation of women in leadership roles as well as jobs that have traditionally been seen as male dominated.
"In dismantling historically male domains in the state and military, Norway ranks among the world’s trendsetters. Women have served as the head of state for more than 40 percent of the years since 1981"
"In Norway the national average for women working in the construction industry is 35%"
"According to recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 11.5% of payroll employees in the construction industry are women"
You have no facts to speak of and it is clear you think sexism is status quo. Ignoring the problem is not a solution and is directly responsible for the attacks on woman's rights in the US.
There is a reason women make less in comparable private sector jobs, have their bodily autonomy violated, and don't have basic necessities taken care of like maternal leave.
I quoted "gender equality paradox" for a reason. It is a real thing, not some concept I conceived of--It has a Wikipedia entry, for fuck's sake. I'll quote the first paragraph, but please stop being so intellectually lazy and actually look up the whole thing yourself, instead of wallowing in your haughty condescension:
No facts you're willing to admit exist, despite being both present and easily-accessible, you mean. You can't will them out of existence, no matter how much you wish you could.
No, what's clear is that you assume any sex disparity is caused by sexism, the sociological version of the creationist's 'god of the gaps' argument, where God is similarly conveniently spackled into any crevice not already filled.
Listen, citing a theory on Wikipedia which was disproven by the statistics I shared is not proof of anything. Your thought pattern is eerily similar to the justifications used against suffrage and women's right to vote.
The paradox is not a paradox at all. Cultural indoctrination explains why this happens. It is clear that you are using this theory to justify sexism in your mind. This is the only lazy thinking that is happening here.
I will reiterate you have no facts only an easily disproven theory. A theory that cites pseudo-science like personality types. While entertaining it is no different than other asinine postulations like astrology.
I won't even entertain how stupid you get with the gods of gap nonsense. You have no foundation in understanding sexism which is painfully obvious. I would highly suggest reading up on sexism so you can have a real discussion about this in the future.
https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/sexism-at-work-handbook/part-1-understand/where-does-sexism-come?language_content_entity=en
https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/files/2022/06/Sexism.pdf
https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-oppression/
It's not a "theory", it was what the research found. It just doesn't confirm your biases, so you strain your wrist with how hard you desperately try to handwave it out of existence. Ironically another similarity to the young earth creationist playbook: "evolution is just a theory", lol.
LMAO, better let Nature know you know better what real science is. What a hack journal, right?
Incredible.
Facts:
Explain how, if sexism is the reason for the skew in the first place, it can be that less sexism widens the gap. Be specific.
You don't even know it is a theory... I am dumbfounded.
"The construction industry continues to be predominately male with structures and norms that impede women from pursuing careers within the industry. As mentioned above, the SCB (2019) report showed that the construction industry in Sweden consists of only 11 per cent women."
You are so full of shit it is not even funny.
I think we are done pretending you know anything.