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That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising.
by darthoctopus 4y ago
That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising.
- david-gpu 4y agoIsn't medicine expensive, highly profitable and significantly female-dominated these days?
- darthoctopus 4y ago1. these days 2. nursing may be female-dominated, but the gender ratio of doctors (for whom the industry is significantly more profitable) is still heavily skewed towards men, is it not?
- GavinMcG 4y agoNot as to doctors: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/active-physicians-sex-and-specialty-2019 https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data... Nursing (which is a huge industry of course) is the notable exception within medicine. But it’s still subordinate.
- klipt 4y agoWorking physicians is a trailing indicator. The leading indicator is MD students which have been majority women for years now.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoBut what proportions will actually work as doctors?
- klipt 4y agoI assume most of them have to, for at least some years, to pay off their medical school loans.
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- kwhitefoot 4y agoNot in my experience, the more senior roles are still skewed towards men.
- paxys 4y agoMedicine is not at all female dominated, just certain categories in it like nursing and pharma sales reps. If you move up the ladder of money and influence, you will find that the majority of doctors, administrators, CEOs etc. are very much male. Breaking down just doctors, the profession is 2/3 male, and within it women lean towards specialties like gynecology, pediatrics and palliative medicine while the most prestigious ones like various kinds of surgery and radiology are male dominated.
- adwn 4y ago> once computing became [...] expensive At what point in time do you think computing became more expensive than it was before? If anything, the cost of computing has been strictly monotonically decreasing since the very first programmable computer.
- darthoctopus 4y agoIndeed. My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.
- adwn 4y ago> My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place. That doesn't make any sense. Just 10 minutes before you've claimed that computing became male-dominated because it was expensive: > That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising. and now you claim that it was female-dominated at first because it was expensive?
- darthoctopus 4y ago> simultaneously expensive and highly profitable