Fundamentally I think that men and women are different, not better or worse but anecdotally different, so it's no surprise that when given the most opportunity to do so, they will choose different things. Anybody who went to school at a child, speaking honestly, will say that on average boys and girls tend to lean more towards different …
Fundamentally I think that men and women are different, not better or worse but anecdotally different, so it's no surprise that when given the most opportunity to do so, they will choose different things. Anybody who went to school at a child, speaking honestly, will say that on average boys and girls tend to lean more towards different things.
Valuing men and women by their aspirations towards the traditionally male-dominated STEM fields seems like quite a masculine-dominant mindset; who's to say that going into these fields is an important metric to look at?
I don't think this is a paradox so much as a symptom of framing gender relations as a zero sum men vs women dichotomy where each side has to score points by taking from the other.
Fundamentally I think that men and women are different, not better or worse but anecdotally different, so it's no surprise that when given the most opportunity to do so, they will choose different things. Anybody who went to school at a child, speaking honestly, will say that on average boys and girls tend to lean more towards different things.
Valuing men and women by their aspirations towards the traditionally male-dominated STEM fields seems like quite a masculine-dominant mindset; who's to say that going into these fields is an important metric to look at?
I don't think this is a paradox so much as a symptom of framing gender relations as a zero sum men vs women dichotomy where each side has to score points by taking from the other.
A major way to think of this is through the semantics of different systems (with 10-90 split borrowed from Peterson):
1. Women must do what they traditionally do, even if 10% of "tomboys" are not fit for it
2. Women can choose whatever they want to do, so the 10-90 split can be naturalized (BIGI-like)
3. Women must be forced to do masculine work, even if 90% of women don't want to (GGGI and GII like metrics)
#2 and #3 are not the same, even though they don't comply with #1.