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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by rayiner on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:50PM (#13395823)
But the nature of the jobs hasn't changed. It's no less important for your pharmacist to give you the right medicine. What's changed is individual credit seeking and self promotion has been deemphasized.

I've seen this first hand in the legal industry. Business generation has shifted from getting a call from your golf buddy to formally pitching your team/strategy/rates. Meanwhile, 30% of GCs and new partners are women. Not a coincidence.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by srssays on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:21PM (#13395984)
The claim was that pharmacists aren't running their own businesses anymore. It's hard to spin that as a win for 'equality' if the profits have been redirected to the executives and shareholders of medium-sized chains and Walmart.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by gozur88 on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:20PM (#13396252)
Yeah. The way I read that is "Now that you can't make much money as a pharmacist, it's no longer attractive to men."
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by sheepmullet on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:45PM (#13396086)
> But the nature of the jobs hasn't changed.

I don't know if that's really true. A lot of pharmacist jobs are essentially retail sales roles.

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