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It’s called the Gender Equality Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox Researc
by seibelj 4y ago
It’s called the Gender Equality Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
Research shows that when there is more gender equality in countries, the self selection for certain occupations by gender increases. This could lead you to believe there is something fundamentally different about men and women that makes them on average choose different careers.
- anon291 4y agoThe thing on average that's different between men and women is that women bear children and are then flooded with hormones that make them want to stay home, whereas a male sexually imprinted on a woman with a child wants to shower resources on the mother. Research has shown how both sexes hormones change with respect to having a child, and this is pretty much how things work. Why we should expect this to not have societal implications is beyond me. Too many articles talk about sex without talking about children, which is ridiculous, because children are an incredibly common human experience.
- civilized 4y agoIt'd take a bit to find specific examples but I feel like I've seen a lot of research over the past few years that says various dimensions of gender inequality are statistically non-existent prior to motherhood, and open up wide at precisely that point.