(November 29, 2015 at 6:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Absolutely, Losty.
A question though. Do you think there is a reason why, for example, there are a lot more men who are pilots and engineers than woman who are those things, and a lot more women who are hairdressers and school teachers than men who are those things? Or is it purely because of society?
Now let me be perfectly clear on something: I do not think there is ANYTHING wrong with a man choosing to be a kindergarten teacher or with a woman choosing to be a bomber pilot. People can do what they want, and if that's what they're good at and what they want to do, go for it. Doesn't matter what you are.
But my point is perhaps there is an inherent reason why more women tend to be more interested in certain things and more men tend to be more interested in other things. Perhaps that reason is because, while there are exceptions, men and women have a certain difference to them that extends beyond just genitalia and physicality. I don't think there's anything wrong with that or that we need to try to deny this. It doesn't make one sex better than the other, just makes them different.
I am pretty sure a large part of it involves conditioning girls and boys differently. Girls are conditioned to be pretty and pleasant and passive, and men are conditioned to be strong and aggressive and smart.
Kids believe what you tell them. I am lucky enough to have had parents who made me believe I could do anything I wanted. I turned out to be a scientist, a male-dominated career. At work, men and women communicate differently. I have seen women admonished and punished professionally (and called things like "nutcracker") for being strong and opinionated, and men rewarded for being strong and opinionated (and being called things like "A strong leader"). It's a cultural thing to some degree.
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