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Interesting theory. Do you apply it to men in predominantly female occupations and vice versa?
by cjhopman 8y ago
Interesting theory. Do you apply it to men in predominantly female occupations and vice versa?
- leroy_masochist 8y agoThat's a good question. Best stab at an answer is that I think it's true for most companies where it's possible that the next CEO will have gone to HBS and worked for McKinsey. Would be a fun topic for research!
- kybernetikos 8y agoI think it's entirely plausible that the median woman in a coding job is better than the median man in a coding job because of this effect. That's why vague claims (like in the google debacle) that women are biologically less suited to coding than men might not be relevant to your organisation even if we were to believe it true in general. A similar effect may explain some of this: https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-comprehensive-case-for-investing-more-vc-money-in-women-led-startups https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-comprehensive-case-for-investing...