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In reply to the discussion: "We raise girls to cater to the fragile egos of men." [View all]bhikkhu
(10,730 posts)I'm sorry I don't buy it. If that were the case, then how do you explain the income disparity? There's much more to it than women doing better jobs and getting paid less than men.
http://www.crispymoney.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=96&d=1333118806&stc=1
and on edit - its very similar to the "blacks prefer manual labor" argument, or the "women don't need to vote because they're uninterested in politics" argument.
And who ever said that verbal abilities aren't necessary in math and science? If anything, they are more vital there?
The study about women choosing different fields is flawed at least in that it looks at a minority who have achieved their goals in the fields that they were allowed to achieve them in, and ignores all those who were shut out from other fields. When the bias against women in science and math goes back to primary school and is a deep cultural artifact, the ones who should have been polled have largely been convinced of their unsuitability and discouraged long before they could be polled.
"We raise girls to cater to the fragile egos of men." - that's what I've seen, and the national statistics bear it out.