Re:Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]
by DoreenMichele on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:03AM
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Or perhaps, women, in average, have a higher natural predisposition to take care of young children than men.
A few quotes from the below article:
From colonial times and into the early decades of the 19th century, most teachers were men.
1840s: Feminization Begins
The reformers argued that women were by nature nurturing and maternal, as well as of high moral character.
https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html
In contrast, early programmers were mostly women and it is now a male dominated field. There is a lot of research and we are quite confident that trends of this sort in various fields are driven by societal factors, and never mind how much people of a particular era try to come up with various justifications for how one gender is supposedly innately more predisposed to X for some reason.
Re:Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]
by throwaway675309 on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:28AM
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I wonder if maternal instincts might factor in here too. There was a hacker news article not too long ago about "Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys"
Or perhaps, women, in average, have a higher natural predisposition to take care of young children than men.
That would not be a surprise, since women get pregnant and, as far as I know, generally took care of children while men went out to hunt and fight.
Of course, nobody should be pressured to choose a profession based on a stereotype.