Re:What 'Lean In' Misunderstands About Gender Differences
by parennoob on Thursday October 17, 2013 @03:48PM
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I don't know what sort of call centers you hare talking about, but the ones I have heard of from friends in India are pretty gender balanced.
Secondly, no woman in the several most recent crop of graduates (from the US) I know has been trying to get into a call center job. The one I most hear is "I want to work in a non-profit job in DC / New York / <insert big city here>".
Thirdly, with the more or less egalitarian society for people under 30 in urban areas, social status is much more important than economic status. There isn't any society-wide mocking of people who work in call centers, but there is some of people who work in tech. Ergo, less people (and specially women) go into tech in their 20s.
Re:What 'Lean In' Misunderstands About Gender Differences
by true_religion on Saturday October 19, 2013 @06:15PM
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I'm not sure anyone from college is dying to work in a call center, but it was supposed to be an example of a job that traditionally was female-dominant in US/UK.
Perhaps its a combination of CS being predominantly male-oriented with all the trouble that brings for a woman trying to 'break in', and low-status as well.
High-status occupations are sought after and reach gender equity even when there's a high barrier to entry. Examples would be law, and medicine (doctors).