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Nowhere in that quote is it stated that women are biologically less capable of engineering.
by moduspol 9y ago
Nowhere in that quote is it stated that women are biologically less capable of engineering.
- ebbv 9y agoability (noun) 1. possession of the means or skill to do something. 2. talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular area.
- Veen 9y agoThe argument goes like this: traits are distributed with different frequencies throughout populations (plenty of evidence this is true), those traits may lead to differences of interest and focus in specific areas, and that leads to differences in the frequencies at which we can expect to find members of those populations represented at the top of some fields. None of this says anything about the abilities of any individual women. There are many excellent female engineers. Nor does it say that these excellent women engineers don't face discrimination because of their gender. All it says is that you'd expect fewer women to be represented in the population of the most competent engineers (in the same way you find fewer men in veterinary fields, for example).
- kossae 9y agoSeriously. That particular section is describing an average inherent distribution of career preferences/abilities due, in PART, to biological causes. However social (mainly), economic, and tons of other factors can come into play here. Given there is a section in the memo with similar verbiage as the article's quote, I would give some slack to the author if the sentiment remained from the original. However the author's quote changes the meaning of what Damore said quite a bit.