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Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by AlexTWithBeard on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:10AM (#19717939)
science supports the fact that there are sex differences in the brain.

... does not propose [that] men are better suited to X activity or job.

If two things are different (any things not just brains), surely there will be some cases when one works better than another?

Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by szemet on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:22AM (#19717998)
It may be likely - but it is not a logical necessity: there can be large structural differences between functionally equivalent things (artificial, engineered example: like a C64 computer and a C64 emulator)
Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by threeseed on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:28AM (#19718029)
Being suited to a job is a combination of hundreds of factors e.g. experience, temperament, social skills, personality type. And those factors do not necessarily correlate with gender.

So ignoring all of those factors and just focusing on gender is illogical. Especially given that men/women are not all uniform and exhibit wildly different personality and behavioural traits.

Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by claytongulick on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:41PM (#19720367)
It really depends on the job, doesn't it? If the job is, for example, a dock worker physically lifting heavy crates / boxes all day, is it unreasonable to expect there to be a gender bias in hiring for that position? How about a bouncer at a bar?