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> Why are some professions receiving more attention than others when it comes to evening sex ratios.

I think some people in the technology field unfortunately take everything at face value and are not really thinking about the various power plays in motion when it comes to persuasion and influence. I would point out that some people stand to make money and gain power off of promoting these views, and of course some employers stand to make a hell of a lot of money off of promoting these views.

I'd say that until there's a societal movement to even out the gender imbalance in boilermakers, roofers, deep sea fishers, oil drillers, and other difficult but very profitable careers, that distrusting the motives of those that claim to want to even out the gender imbalance in the workplace is fair game.



There's certainly a movement to recruit women into the trades: carpentry, electrical work, etc.


Presumably the idea is that this "movement" needs a comparable level of investment and energy as the movement to get women into tech, etc.


It will fail. It has failed in all countries pushing this hard. Just look at the Scandinavian countries.


Jordan Peterson has done a great job of documenting this.

Equality of opportunity is very different, and much better to strive for, than equality of outcome.




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