No. Sexism could be a reason that one is prevented from doing what they want, but I’m talking about the desire itself, one step before that. Men and women don’t want the same things at the same rates, in the first place.
All the way from infancy, there are well-established average differences in preferences, long before the age where “sexism” has any meaning to them. The notion that there is no difference between the sexes until societal pressures push them one way or the other is, in a word, bunk.
It’s also been found that significant gender skews like ‘most engineers are men’ and ‘most nurses are women’ are only more steeply tilted in countries where there is more societal gender equality, e.g. Scandinavian countries compared to the US. In other words, the more men and women are truly free to pursue their choice of profession, the more likely they are to choose to be engineers/nurses (for example), respectively. It’s literally known as the ‘gender equality paradox’, because the researchers who discovered this were baffled by the results, having fully assumed that the more equality there is, the lesser the skew would be. But, the simply misunderstand that men and women, on average, simply prefer different things, professionally.
you are telling me that somehow only few women want to be CEOs and become billionaires? There are plenty of competitive women and choose to focus on their careers.
Yes, there are plenty. But there are plenty more men who do. That’s just the fact of the matter. When it comes to the entirety of the (very small, compared to the general population, by the way) demographic of hyper-ambitious workaholics that want to get to the top of their field more than anything else, the fact is that the large majority of that demographic, is male. So it makes perfect sense that the majority of those who succeed in those aspirations will also be male.
It’s exactly the same reason as why most librarians are women. That’s not because men are bullied out of it or anything—a small minority of people who even choose to begin going down that path, by majoring in Library Science in college, are men. They just don’t want to do that for a living at the same rate that women do, similar to how far more men than women want to be mechanical/electrical engineers. So, absent of any sexism, there will still be a large disparity.
And that’s just one example of how large sex disparities can exist with sexism having nothing to do with it. It’s never correct to assume any deviation from a 50/50 ratio in any professional aspect is caused solely or primarily by sexism or societal pressure, especially when it’s been shown that those skews tend to increase when there is more gender equality, as mentioned re the ‘paradox’ above.
And you just purposefully ignored what I said of countries where there are just as many women as men doing the same job, like women CEOs and male nurses in South East Asia.
No. Sexism could be a reason that one is prevented from doing what they want, but I’m talking about the desire itself, one step before that. Men and women don’t want the same things at the same rates, in the first place.
All the way from infancy, there are well-established average differences in preferences, long before the age where “sexism” has any meaning to them. The notion that there is no difference between the sexes until societal pressures push them one way or the other is, in a word, bunk.
It’s also been found that significant gender skews like ‘most engineers are men’ and ‘most nurses are women’ are only more steeply tilted in countries where there is more societal gender equality, e.g. Scandinavian countries compared to the US. In other words, the more men and women are truly free to pursue their choice of profession, the more likely they are to choose to be engineers/nurses (for example), respectively. It’s literally known as the ‘gender equality paradox’, because the researchers who discovered this were baffled by the results, having fully assumed that the more equality there is, the lesser the skew would be. But, the simply misunderstand that men and women, on average, simply prefer different things, professionally.
Yes, there are plenty. But there are plenty more men who do. That’s just the fact of the matter. When it comes to the entirety of the (very small, compared to the general population, by the way) demographic of hyper-ambitious workaholics that want to get to the top of their field more than anything else, the fact is that the large majority of that demographic, is male. So it makes perfect sense that the majority of those who succeed in those aspirations will also be male.
It’s exactly the same reason as why most librarians are women. That’s not because men are bullied out of it or anything—a small minority of people who even choose to begin going down that path, by majoring in Library Science in college, are men. They just don’t want to do that for a living at the same rate that women do, similar to how far more men than women want to be mechanical/electrical engineers. So, absent of any sexism, there will still be a large disparity.
And that’s just one example of how large sex disparities can exist with sexism having nothing to do with it. It’s never correct to assume any deviation from a 50/50 ratio in any professional aspect is caused solely or primarily by sexism or societal pressure, especially when it’s been shown that those skews tend to increase when there is more gender equality, as mentioned re the ‘paradox’ above.
And you just purposefully ignored what I said of countries where there are just as many women as men doing the same job, like women CEOs and male nurses in South East Asia.
You’re missing the forest for trees.