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I think it's more gender-biased, in that incompetence is overlooked in areas where we expect one gender to have better skills. If a man fucks up changing a napp
by vacri 11y ago
I think it's more gender-biased, in that incompetence is overlooked in areas where we expect one gender to have better skills. If a man fucks up changing a nappy, "well, he's just a man". If a woman fucks up changing a tyre, "well, she's just a woman".
When it comes to leadership, we haven't allowed women to be visible leaders for very long; there is still cultural baggage suggesting it as a male area.
- hackuser 11y ago> incompetence is overlooked in areas where we expect one gender to have better skills. I agree and that's a good point. However, 1) if leadership is a male field then men should face higher standards, not lower ones; and 2) the consequences for high-level leaders can be much more serious than tires or nappies, too serious to dismiss with casual gender stereotypes.
- scott_karana 11y ago> However, 1) if leadership is a male field then men should face higher standards, not lower ones I suspect that anthropologists and sociologists would say that the OPPOSITE is true: that people inside peer-groups are often subject to less criticism than those out of the groups. ;-)