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Results are on page19. > As expected, the percentages of students aspiring to sex-typical occupations were higher in countries with higher levels of women's e
by Gunax 5y ago
Results are on page19.
> As expected, the percentages of
students aspiring to sex-typical occupations were higher in countries with higher levels
of women's empowerment, r(68)=.350, p=.003. The percentages of students aspiring to sex-atypical occupations ranged from 7%[6.2%-7.8%] in Lithuania to 23%[21.2%-
24.3%] in Lebanon (international median of 12%). This variation correlated negatively
with women's empowerment, r(68)=-.500, p<.001.
I do not like weighing into these sorts of things too much because I think people tend to find whatever they are looking for. All it really shows is that gender preferenes are formed before adolescence. Whether that innate or learned is not clear.
- daveevad 5y agoCan anyone track down the list of `sex-typical occupations` ? The thickest thread I've found is a reference to a PISA 2018 dataset. > We investigated sex differences in 473,260 adolescents’ aspirations to work in thingsoriented (e.g., mechanic), people-oriented (e.g., nurse), and STEM (e.g., mathematician) careers across 80 countries and economic regions using the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
- pessimizer 5y ago> Whether that innate or learned is not clear. Unless you also consider nationality innate, it certainly suggests that it is learned.
- mcguire 5y agoAre you suggesting there are no biological differences between Lebanese and Lithuanians? /s (although I've seen that argument here before)
- simonh 5y agoHuman beings are a very genetically homogenous species, far more so than most. Suppose you take a member of an ethnic group and compare them to two other randomly selected individuals, one from their ethnic group and one from a different ethnic group. The chances their genetic differences will be greater with one rather than the other is very close to 50/50. Ethnicity makes only a very tiny difference, the vast, vast majority of the differences between individuals have nothing to do with it.