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Exactly. Stepping back a bit, in nature there are all sorts of variation and swings in numbers from one characteristic to another. Nobody wants women to be pus
by exodust 12y ago
Exactly. Stepping back a bit, in nature there are all sorts of variation and swings in numbers from one characteristic to another.
Nobody wants women to be pushed out by force or denied opportunity to reach their deserved position. But is that really happening whenever we see more of one gender in a particular role than another? I don't think so.
I remember in highschool (20 years ago), only 2 girls were in my electronics class. Those 2 girls were not given any special treatment, or picked on, or anything. It was simply how the cards fell for that class due to most girls in the school NOT being interested in electronics.
I suppose we could've started a campaign designed to attract more "women in electronics". Okay, but they were never unwelcome in the first place. They simply didn't enrol in that course.
- alexbecker 12y ago> It was simply how the cards fell for that class due to most girls in the school NOT being interested in electronics. It seems likely that the fact that so few girls expressed an interest in electronics is a result of differences in the way society treats men and women. Whether or not this is inherently a bad thing is something I think can be reasonably debated (and at great length), but ultimately I think it is.