They still can’t make it in intellectually demanding occupations except by affirmative action.
To avoid begging the question, that should be “don’t”.
200 years ago it was basically unthinkable for most women to have any role other than parent and housekeeper. 50 years ago it was basically unthinkable for women to have senior leadership roles or to work in the most intellectually demanding jobs. Now it is thinkable but uncommon; at least some of them appear to do pretty well but they are few in number. Prima facie, the continuing underrepresentation could be because of differences in ability distribution or personality traits or sometihng; or because of (reduced but still remaining) prejudice; or some mixture of both.
Your argument a couple of posts back, if I understand it right, was: It must be because of differences in ability, because otherwise they’d be doing OK now just like East Asians are. So far as I can see, that argument only works if there’s some reason to think that if the past shortage of women in those roles were the result of prejudice, then by now it would be completely repaired. But I see no reason to expect that; prejudices can last a very long time. It looks to me (though I don’t have statistics; do you?) as if the current rate of change in women’s career prospects is still substantial, suggesting that if the last few decades’ changes are the result of prejudice reduction then the process isn’t yet complete and we shouldn’t assume that we are now at the endpoint of the process.
Note also that there were no people tacking about “microagressions” or for that matter much in the way of affirmative action when these groups succeeded.
That language seems to presuppose that whatever change they achieved has now stopped. As I said above, I think that’s very far from clear.
the closing of the gender gap appears to have stopped
That post seems long on anecdote and short on data.
Pages 10-11 of this document seems to show a steady decline in full-time gender pay gap from 1970 to 2010. The part-time figures are weirdly different; by eye they seem to show one downward jump circa 1974, then approximate stasis, then another downward jump circa 2005.
To avoid begging the question, that should be “don’t”.
200 years ago it was basically unthinkable for most women to have any role other than parent and housekeeper. 50 years ago it was basically unthinkable for women to have senior leadership roles or to work in the most intellectually demanding jobs. Now it is thinkable but uncommon; at least some of them appear to do pretty well but they are few in number. Prima facie, the continuing underrepresentation could be because of differences in ability distribution or personality traits or sometihng; or because of (reduced but still remaining) prejudice; or some mixture of both.
Your argument a couple of posts back, if I understand it right, was: It must be because of differences in ability, because otherwise they’d be doing OK now just like East Asians are. So far as I can see, that argument only works if there’s some reason to think that if the past shortage of women in those roles were the result of prejudice, then by now it would be completely repaired. But I see no reason to expect that; prejudices can last a very long time. It looks to me (though I don’t have statistics; do you?) as if the current rate of change in women’s career prospects is still substantial, suggesting that if the last few decades’ changes are the result of prejudice reduction then the process isn’t yet complete and we shouldn’t assume that we are now at the endpoint of the process.
Note also that there were no people tacking about “microagressions” or for that matter much in the way of affirmative action when these groups succeeded.
Also, the closing of the gender gap appears to have stopped during the last 30 years.
That language seems to presuppose that whatever change they achieved has now stopped. As I said above, I think that’s very far from clear.
That post seems long on anecdote and short on data.
Pages 10-11 of this document seems to show a steady decline in full-time gender pay gap from 1970 to 2010. The part-time figures are weirdly different; by eye they seem to show one downward jump circa 1974, then approximate stasis, then another downward jump circa 2005.