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What about kids' doodles of mine workers, garbage collectors, soldiers killed in war, prisoners, and other undesirable fields? I would guess they still draw mo
by spodek 9y ago
What about kids' doodles of mine workers, garbage collectors, soldiers killed in war, prisoners, and other undesirable fields?
I would guess they still draw mostly men. Or rather, I would guess they don't even draw them or think about them. I don't hear many calls for equality there.
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoThe idea is that women are severely underrepresented in STEM and that negatively influences their standard of life. It wouldn't make any sense to convince them they should be garbage collectors or miners in the same way as it makes little sense to ask men to become nurses. With STEM it's different: there are great advantages, both to women themselves and the society in general, if the proportions change.
- DanBC 9y agoBut also, there are programmes to increase the number of women in mining and construction, and the number of men in nursing and teaching.
- colinb 9y agoThis is interesting. I set out to argue that there are plenty of nasty, boring, unfulfilling jobs done by women for low wages (something that I think is inarguably true). But I note that your examples are mostly about physically hazardous jobs. So I did some googling, and found a statistic [1] that said that in 2015, 93% of US workplace fatalities were of men. So maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe the statistic changes if you look outside the industrialized nations. Anyone know? [1] https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-come-nobody-talks-about-the-gender-workplace-death-gap/ https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-come-nobod...