Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by throwawayboise on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:48PM
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It does have to do with sex. There are of course exceptions, but women are naturally more equipped and inclined to be nurturers and caregivers, and men providers, especially for young children. It is also why women are disproportionate in early childhood care and education jobs (it gets somewhat more even with older kids; e.g there is a much higher proportion of male teachers at most high schools compared to elementary schools or preschool/daycare).
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by edmundsauto on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:53PM
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Do you realize how hard it would be to disentangle nature from nurture on a gender-wide, cross-cultural study? You have some unchecked assumptions about biology - there may be indicators at a very crude level, but I don’t even know how you could design a real world study that would support conclusions you take as assumptions.
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by hirako2000 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:54PM
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It is sad to see the most logical comment out there is getting downvoted given the logical aptitudes of this community.
Statistics show you are right, evolutionary biology says you are right.
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by edmundsauto on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:56PM
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Evolutionary bio makes psychology look like Newtonian physics, in terms of objectivity and generalizability.
Statistics show the combined result of nature and nurture. How would you even begin to design an ethical study that could prove causation?
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by hirako2000 on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:25AM
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Stats and evolutionary biology converge on this topic. On the opposite side, we have politically loaded opinions.
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by edmundsauto on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:05PM
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And in the middle are most people, who are skeptical about the value from evo bio. Again, the statistics are only descriptive - it is not easy to tease apart nurture from nature.
There's very little reason to think "statistics and evolutionary biology convergence" reveals any truths in this case. The only conclusion to draw here is that confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
It has nothing to do with genders - it has to do with the carrying cost of a household nowadays is tied to dual incomes (+ housing and health care costs have eaten up a lot of surplus income)