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Re:Training the Masculinity Out of Children by krapp on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:03PM (#16826304)
People can believe that sex differences exist, while disagreeing with others on how dominant their influence is, versus the social constructs. One obvious example of this is arguments about the dearth of women in technical and programming roles.
Re:Training the Masculinity Out of Children by belorn on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:15PM (#16833085)
That "obvious example" has major issue when looking at the population as a whole. If you took a random person on the street and asked what profession they had then the chances are about 50% or higher that they are in a worse gender segregation than technical and programming professions.

Consider this: only 12% of the employed people in Sweden work in a profession which has equal or less gender segregation of 60%/40%. The remaining 88%, also called the wast majority work in a place which is considered gender segregated. technical and programming professions have around 70%-30% gender segregation. They rank very average among all profession, with no distinctive attribute in the area of gender segregation.

What does a average gender segregation for a specific profession say about sex differences vs social constructs? Would not looking at those several profession with 99% or higher gender segregation be more telling? For example, what does the highest male gender segregated profession reported here in Sweden, brick layers, with a ration above 99% tell us about sex differences vs social constructs?