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Hypothesis: As long as "technology" is considered playing with "in-animate" objects, you won't eliminate the gender gap. Women are empirically more interested/
by 001sky 13y ago
Hypothesis: As long as "technology" is considered playing with "in-animate" objects, you won't eliminate the gender gap.
Women are empirically more interested/specialized in "animated" objects (ie, living things and social relatinships), due to human physiology/biology and social operant conditioning.
The premise that such a (non-uniform) distribution is unethical, unproductive, or un-natural lacks evidentiary data to support it.
It may very well make (biological or evolutinary) sense; condider a port-folio effect from social-pair bonds (m,f) with reproductive potency.
In plain english, a team of two specialists may be more powerful than an aggregation of individuals as "jack of all trades".
These are not easily or trivially dismissed complications.
Also, notice this dimensionalization is not along the axis of a "social problem", in the game-theoretic sense, like the prisoner's dilemma.
The only assumptions are two: non-uniform preferences, and non-linear returns to scale from learning-by-doing. neither of these seem overly controversial.
- Bjuukia 13y agoI wouldn't be so sure about that. Back home, there were plenty of girls who were math, physics, and computer nerds like me. They were curious and had that hacker mentality. But since moving to USA I haven't met any american girls/women like that. Those I did meet were immigrants like me, or studying here as exchange students from another country. I've been living here for more than 10 years. Why is there such a difference in the amount of girls interested in technology around the world, and where I'm from, vs here in America? Now, I could understand that if I lived in a very diverse state like NJ or NY, it would be normal to see lots of girls from other places. But in the state I live, I think the population is 99% white non-immigrant, so it's really odd that the only females are outsiders! There's something else at play here.