How come women are more likely to become Walmart workers than doctors compared to men? Here are some contributing factors:
Girls are taught to see doctors as men
Girls receive less pressure to excel in science
Girls are taught to be more squeamish while boys are permitted to make messes
Maintaining a professional career is harder without maternity leave
Employers may view the prospect of having to pay maternity leave as a business risk
Women may avoid academia due to a fear of not being taken seriously
Girls are discouraged from occupying positions of authority
Women may fear not being taken seriously by patients
Girls are often told not to worry about their careers and to focus on marriage instead
Sexism: A 2019 review notes that previous research has found that girls play outside less than boys. Some studies have found that caregivers treat girls differently from boys when it comes to managing risk, encouraging boys to deal with problems by themselves more often. This may mean girls feel less confident playing outside without supervision. Caregivers can also restrict girls from playing outside due to fears of assault.
The first national survey of play in preschool-aged children in Britain has found that from the age of two-years-old, girls are playing outside in nature less than boys.
Children need to play in the mud and get messy. It’s good for them. But girls are being discouraged from playing outside. And being able, psychologically, to deal with mess is an important life skill needed for lots of jobs. Including being a doctor. It’s better to learn these skills earlier rather than later.
This. It’s a wilfully deceptive statistical misinterpretation implying that a woman working alongside a man in the same job is magically making 20-something percent less. If businesses could get away with saving 20-30% on their biggest ongoing expense (payroll) for employees in one half of the population, they would only ever hire people from that half.
When controlled for field, role, seniority, region, etc., the disparity is within a margin of error.
That stat wasn’t even real when it was published.
The data from that study didn’t even compare similar fields.
It compared a Walmart worker to a doctor lol.
It was a wild study.
How come women are more likely to become Walmart workers than doctors compared to men? Here are some contributing factors:
Girls are taught to see doctors as men
Girls receive less pressure to excel in science
Girls are taught to be more squeamish while boys are permitted to make messes
Maintaining a professional career is harder without maternity leave
Employers may view the prospect of having to pay maternity leave as a business risk
Women may avoid academia due to a fear of not being taken seriously
Girls are discouraged from occupying positions of authority
Women may fear not being taken seriously by patients
Girls are often told not to worry about their careers and to focus on marriage instead
You were clearly thinking of mechanical engineers, I get those confused all the time as well.
Seriously? What is this drivel. It’s not 1950 anymore.
Sorry. Drag forgot that sexism was abolished forever in 2016 when the United States elected a woman president
You are here providing a great example that sexism is still around.
Graduating medical classes have been majority female for 20 years now.
If anything, the user you responded to was demonstrating subconscious biases against female doctors lol
Way worse than that.
What? Lol
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/outdoor-play-children#why-it-matters
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/by-aged-two-girls-are-already-playing-outside-less-than-boys/
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/03/why-women-clean-more-than-men-because-they-re-judged-for-the-mess.html
Children need to play in the mud and get messy. It’s good for them. But girls are being discouraged from playing outside. And being able, psychologically, to deal with mess is an important life skill needed for lots of jobs. Including being a doctor. It’s better to learn these skills earlier rather than later.
Did you notice in the part you quoted where it says ‘This may mean…’? This may mean your source isn’t that good.
Cool. Drag guesses that means they must have been majority male up until 21 years ago. That explains why most doctors were still male 15 years ago.
OK, chief.
In an ideal world it would be nice to be able to do that, but in our it’s just misleading.
This. It’s a wilfully deceptive statistical misinterpretation implying that a woman working alongside a man in the same job is magically making 20-something percent less. If businesses could get away with saving 20-30% on their biggest ongoing expense (payroll) for employees in one half of the population, they would only ever hire people from that half.
When controlled for field, role, seniority, region, etc., the disparity is within a margin of error.