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Gender and political ideology are very different. They're the same in that they are generally social constructs but the reasons people align with one or the oth
by tdb7893 7y ago
Gender and political ideology are very different. They're the same in that they are generally social constructs but the reasons people align with one or the other and how society views them isn't the same.
- deogeo 7y agoI don't think AnimalMuppet is saying they're the same, but that, if we were half as motivated at finding reasons why conservatives feel discouraged from some academic fields, as we are for why women are, we'd come up with something. Especially since the left:right ratios used to be more even [1] (please excuse the source), so it doesn't look like conservatives are intrinsically against academic careers. While as gender equality increases, STEM fields get more gender-imbalanced [2]. [1] https://www.dailywire.com/news/30222/how-politically-biased-are-universities-new-study-james-barrett https://www.dailywire.com/news/30222/how-politically-biased-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox