Been reading some interesting articles today about the 'Men's Rights Movement'. It's a difficult situation, because, similar to feminism, there are men who genuinely want equality for men and women. And then there are men who just don't like women. Similar to the anti-male branch of feminism. But it is interesting when you look at how society misinterprets statistics. The classic one is;
'There are far more male executives than female executives.'
Now while I'm not going to deny that there may be sexism in some of these cases, you have to break it down, too. Firstly, women are more likely to avoid a job with more hours as, statistically, they are more likely to be the stay at home parent in a relationship with children. Some studies have even focused on people who don't have kids. Whether or not they would take a job with more hours if it meant less time with close friends than family. In these studies, women where more likely to turn down a job with excessive hours (we're talking 50+ a week here) if it meant less time to socialise. Secondly, women are more likely to enter teaching after graduation. Personally I think this is kind of embarrassing for us men
It suggests, to me at least, that women are much more willing to share their knowledge and help the future generations, than men; who just want ''LOADSA MONEYY!!''. Thirdly, and finally, women are more likely to study a subject that doesn't lead to an executive job. I don't have the statistics at hand, but I do know that in Universities, female students make up the majority of the Arts and Humanities subjects, where as men make up the majority of the Hard Sciences. Again, this could just be that women would rather understand other people (so study subjects like Sociology and Psychology). Again, I personally feel that this shows men as being a bit introverted and selfish :\ We would much rather sit in a room with a hammer and shiny object and hit the object with the hammer. Then sell it to you at extortionate prices, than understand you as a person.
To sum up, I feel like there may never be a time when there are exactly the same amount of women as men in executive jobs. But it may have more to do with the positive side of the average women's personality; empathetic, caring, passionate, compassionate etc, then with inherit, institutionalised sexism. Which, as I said, I'm not saying doesn't exist, I'm just saying may be exaggerated.
P.S. I didn't do that much research for this post, so apologies if some of it's wrong. Also this is not my fixed view on the subject matter, I'm just bored and though I'd vent on a blog.
'There are far more male executives than female executives.'
Now while I'm not going to deny that there may be sexism in some of these cases, you have to break it down, too. Firstly, women are more likely to avoid a job with more hours as, statistically, they are more likely to be the stay at home parent in a relationship with children. Some studies have even focused on people who don't have kids. Whether or not they would take a job with more hours if it meant less time with close friends than family. In these studies, women where more likely to turn down a job with excessive hours (we're talking 50+ a week here) if it meant less time to socialise. Secondly, women are more likely to enter teaching after graduation. Personally I think this is kind of embarrassing for us men
It suggests, to me at least, that women are much more willing to share their knowledge and help the future generations, than men; who just want ''LOADSA MONEYY!!''. Thirdly, and finally, women are more likely to study a subject that doesn't lead to an executive job. I don't have the statistics at hand, but I do know that in Universities, female students make up the majority of the Arts and Humanities subjects, where as men make up the majority of the Hard Sciences. Again, this could just be that women would rather understand other people (so study subjects like Sociology and Psychology). Again, I personally feel that this shows men as being a bit introverted and selfish :\ We would much rather sit in a room with a hammer and shiny object and hit the object with the hammer. Then sell it to you at extortionate prices, than understand you as a person.
To sum up, I feel like there may never be a time when there are exactly the same amount of women as men in executive jobs. But it may have more to do with the positive side of the average women's personality; empathetic, caring, passionate, compassionate etc, then with inherit, institutionalised sexism. Which, as I said, I'm not saying doesn't exist, I'm just saying may be exaggerated.
P.S. I didn't do that much research for this post, so apologies if some of it's wrong. Also this is not my fixed view on the subject matter, I'm just bored and though I'd vent on a blog.
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There are actually a host of differences between male and female neurology that explain a lot of the differences in our behavior. A great book on the subject (which I recomend to EVERYBODY) is " Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps". It takes the very complicated science behind our behavior and explains it in a very clear way. Fun facts like why 90% of people in therapy are women and why 90% of people in prison are men. Or why men are better at parallel parking but women are 50% less likely to be involved in side on collisions.