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建设性别包容的工作环境

Jan 22, 2018 Kathy Bloomgarden

纽约——从好莱坞曝出的一波高调性骚扰案浪潮正在深刻影响着不那么有诱惑力的工作。就像大型电影制片厂被迫采取行动打击虐待行为一样，由站出来揭露真相的女性#我也是运动所推动的一场类似革命——正在席卷所有地方的工作场所。

了解女性在哈维·温斯坦、马特·劳尔和阿尔·弗兰肯等有权有势的男性手中所遭受的苦难是非常可怕的。但亲眼目睹企业界认真对待这一事件，并试图为女性员工创造某种“共同的未来”又非常令人鼓舞。人们对#我也是运动的集体响应可能标志着雇主思考性骚扰和其他涉性问题——如薪酬和权力——等方式的转折。

但职场革命还远未结束。制定全新战略以鼓励员工进行健康互动是必须的。如果能够得到妥善处理，性别平等可以促进商业领域的产量和生产效率，而性别歧视如果遭到忽视，则可能彻底摧毁办公室文化——以及更多。

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Peter Schaeffer Jan 22, 2018

A few facts. Yes, I know that “fact” is a four-letter word and not PC, but facts are important.

1. In countries with less sex discrimination, occupational differentiation is greater than in countries with more sex discrimination. This is known as the “Gender Equity Paradox”. For example, there is more occupational differentiation in Canada than in Ghana. Is Canada really a hellhole of sex discrimination and Ghana some sort of gender equity paradise? Would anyone with half a brain believe such a thing? Actually, some Feminists have tried to make that argument. Note that this point is the specific subject of the first Hjernevask documentary (Hjernevask ("Brainwashing") - English - Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox).

2. Newborns children (1 day old) show rather typical male/female interest patterns. The boys are already more interested in things and the girls are more interested in people. This fits rather well with a genetic model of sex-related interests and blows up the “cultural discrimination” model.

3. The juvenile forms of other primates behave much like human children. Male juvenile primates play with trucks. Female juvenile primates play with dolls.

4. Brain imaging studies have shown that male and female brains look different. The differences match the “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” model rather well. Women’s brains are simply wired differently than men’s. Women’s brains are designed to multitask and communicate. Male brains are designed to concentrate. Those are clichés about adult men and women. They also have a measurable biological basis. Note that a computer can tell a male brain from a female brain with a high (but not perfect) degree of accuracy.

5. It is well known that the standard deviation of intellectual talents is higher for men than women. Why isn’t clear. There is an easy evolutionary explanation for why this might/should be true. However, that doesn’t prove that the evolutionary explanation is correct. A completely different theory is that women have two X chromosome and men only have one. Having two X chromosomes tends to balance out extremes in women but allows them to show up in men. Note that this is just a theory (so far) and could be complementary to the evolutionary explanation.

Ultimately, the reason doesn’t matter. The schism is standard deviations is a trivially reproducible result. The consequences are that more men have extraordinary talents, than women. This was the (completely accurate) point that Larry Summers made back in 2006. He was right then, and still is.

6. CAH females should remarkably “male” patterns of interest and talent. CAH females have (to some degree) male hormonal patterns. Not merely do CAH females have “male” tendencies, the extent that they do, correlates with their hormonal patterns rather well. In other words, the more “male” their hormones, the more “male” they think.

7. Over recent decades, women have advanced remarkably in some professionals but not to the same degree in others. For example, huge numbers of women can be found in Law, Medicine and Biology (LMB) whereas they are far less common in Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering (PCE). Is it really plausible that LMB are models of non-discriminatory tolerance while PCE are bastions of sexism? Can anyone with a straight face claim such a thing? Did the once dominant “male establishment” decide that “we will let women into the low prestige fields of Law, Medicine, and Biology but keep them out of high-prestige fields of Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering”? Does that make any sense at all? The Patti Housman explanation fits the facts rather well. This argument is from the Star Codex web site.

8. A detailed study of Open Source contributions showed that men outnumber women by 17:1. Since Open Source has no barriers (institutional, economic, political, etc.) to entry, the outstanding male:female ratio is a “pure” test of relative interest (and/or talent). See “http://slatestarcodex.com/2...

9. The Math SAT data shows a deep and very persistent male advantage. See “2016 SAT test results confirm pattern that’s persisted for 50 years — high school boys are better at math than girls” (http://www.aei.org/publicat.... I know the results aren’t PC. However, facts are facts.

10. The global PISA data shows that (in relative terms), boys are better than girls (at math) everywhere. The consistency of the results is amazing (in all countries). Note that in some countries boy/girl math scores are roughly equal. In those countries, girls vastly outperform boys in verbal scores. In other countries, boys greatly outperform girls in math. In those countries, verbal PISA scores tend to be more equal. However, the relative advantage of boys over girls in remarkably constant globally. It is also consistent globally, there is literally no country where boy are better than girls (in relative terms) in verbal abilities versus math.

11. The John/Joan case shows (rather clearly) the sexual identity is innate and biological. Of course, one single case doesn’t really prove anything. However, studies of similar cases all show exactly the same thing.

Since 2000, American (and Western) society have moved radically to the “left” (the identity politics left, not the economic left). Cultural explanations of sex differences have become ever more commonplace and the associated ideology has been ever more rigidly enforced. Conversely, the scientific community has moved the other way. The volume of scientific data showing large, genetic differences has relentlessly grown to the point that anyone even trivially familiar with the literature finds “cultural explanations” laughable.

Basically, the political system has dug in with “The Sun orbits the Earth and you will pay dearly for daring to disagree” while the scientific community has embraced “men are from Mars, women are from Venus”. Consider the Larry Summers imbroglio. The math and science faculties supported him. The Liberal Arts faculties wanted him out. You would think that the accuracy of his comments might be relevant to a school with the Veritas on its seal might be relevant. You would be wrong.