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I take the comment "don't expect your partner to be an expert in your career; rather, expect support". The comment's wording sounds a bit like "put women in th

I take the comment "don't expect your partner to be an expert in your career; rather, expect support". The comment's wording sounds a bit like "put women in their place", but I suspect that isn't the intent.

DeusExMachina 16y ago
I wasn't the intent at all. That's just my experience with a lot of women. Surely there are a lot of women that are mathematically and technically capable, but how many there are? Very few. Yes, I too had a girlfriend with a PhD in biology, so she was more than capable. But how many women in general are like that? My direct observation is not that many. I'm not saying that women are less capable than men, only that usually they are different and don't care. Personal experience. I just lived in two european countries and this is what I still see. Maybe in the US it's different. What I was saying is that usually women are more emotional than logical. Do you have a girlfriend who is technically capable too? Wonderful! But do not expect them all to be like that. EDIT: I'm sorry if I sounded sexist, because I really am not. I really love women and I thing they deserve a bigger place in society, sometimes bigger than men. But let's be realistic, we all know that there are very few women in our field and if we meet girls outside of our environment we drastically lower the chance of meeting a technically capable one.