Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
by icebraining on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:50AM
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While it's certainly not unreasonable, the fact that current societies - even very equal ones - show gender roles is hardly good evidence, or makes the social construction theory untenable. All of our societies are also a continuum stretching for millennia, so it's very hard to say what a truly equal society looks like, let alone predict how people would behave in it.
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Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
by macspoofing on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:07AM
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>the fact that current societies - even very equal ones - show gender roles is hardly good evidence, or makes the social construction theory untenable.
Gender roles is what you would expect from a species that developed distinct genders. For example, the simple fact that hormone levels are different between genders, should strongly imply differences in behaviour which should bleed into day to day choices. The fact that one gender specializes with birth, while the other with insemination would strongly imply this difference would in some way segregate genders within a developing culture, and so on.
So I cannot imagine how the "social construction theory" could possibly be correct.
Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
by icebraining on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:31PM
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"strongly imply" - exactly. It certainly implies. It certainly seems the more likely explanation. What I'm saying is that there's a big leap from "strong imply not X" to "X not possibly correct".