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This is a generalization, but I wonder if what we're seeing, with the job world becoming more evenly split between the genders, is men and women playing to thei

This is a generalization, but I wonder if what we're seeing, with the job world becoming more evenly split between the genders, is men and women playing to their traditional strengths to advance in their professional goals. Historically women don't pick up the club and physically assault their opponent. They instead often indirectly attack a challenger's reputation (see shaming, guilt inducing etc), which is still very powerful. Men, when facing a challenge, will avoid complaining, buckle down and try to power through the obstacle. Women, on the other hand, will play the victim card instead of using brute force, and will rely on their cunning to accomplish the same business goal. Both strategies are likely very effective. I wonder if, as we have more majority-women and women-led organizations, we will see more of these indirect tactics deployed by those organizations. More covert corporate warfare than what we're traditionally used to. Nothing wrong with it per se, but just a shift in tactics people might have not foreseen.

CryptoPunk 9y ago
I don't foresee the corporate world becoming more evenly split between men and women. The primary differentiator between men and women is testosterone and estrogen levels, and this has a profound impact on life strategy. With respect to testosterone, the much higher levels found in men drive them to be far more likely to make sacrifices and take risks to achieve more ambitious goals, which manifests in everything from higher numbers of Nobel prize winners, to a life expectancy that is on average 5 years lower than that of women, to a much a higher proportion of murderers, and criminals in general, being men. This difference in outcomes is not based on gender, even if it correlates with gender, so it won't go away as a result of eliminating any supposed social constructs that promote gender stereotypes. It's based on different behavioural traits associated with sex hormones, that establish a person's priorities, and that just happen to be found at higher concentration levels in a higher proportion of men, or women, depending on the hormone.
- BadassFractal 9y ago
  I buy all of that, but does that preclude us from ever seeing more women-only or majority-women companies out there that behave as a unit differently from the traditionally predominantly-male companies?

CryptoPunk 9y ago

I don't foresee the corporate world becoming more evenly split between men and women. The primary differentiator between men and women is testosterone and estrogen levels, and this has a profound impact on life strategy. With respect to testosterone, the much higher levels found in men drive them to be far more likely to make sacrifices and take risks to achieve more ambitious goals, which manifests in everything from higher numbers of Nobel prize winners, to a life expectancy that is on average 5 years lower than that of women, to a much a higher proportion of murderers, and criminals in general, being men. This difference in outcomes is not based on gender, even if it correlates with gender, so it won't go away as a result of eliminating any supposed social constructs that promote gender stereotypes. It's based on different behavioural traits associated with sex hormones, that establish a person's priorities, and that just happen to be found at higher concentration levels in a higher proportion of men, or women, depending on the hormone.

BadassFractal 9y ago
I buy all of that, but does that preclude us from ever seeing more women-only or majority-women companies out there that behave as a unit differently from the traditionally predominantly-male companies?