Is the West still sexist? In employment, we can explore different dimensions of bias: As job candidates, do women face discrimination? In socially valued domains, are they presumed to be less competent? Within firms, are women less influential - either due to women being less confident, or less domineering, or because men are granted greater reverence?
How does one reconcile "It’s not that women are worse evaluators" and "women favour women candidates"? If they unfairly favour women, then they are, in fact, worse evaluators. (Conversely, if there's a global bias against women and women are less biased, then they're better evaluators. Not sure if that would be compatible with the article's data?)
I remember previous studies about job referrals, that claimed women favour women, while men don't particularly discriminate:
It would be refreshing if researchers would cease their second-wave preoccupation with simplistic sex-based categories and focus instead on gender (e.g., traditional male, stereotyped here as "self-confident and self-aggrandizing," vs. alternative or beta male). How much of what is being attributed to men and women is better understood as behavior or treatment of traits associated with, say, personality disorders (e.g., narcissistic vs. avoidant), regardless of sex?
Feminists constantly downplay the influence women have. Men are fallin over themselves to placate feminists all over the West. "Women good, men bad" is an idea that is very pervasive in society.
How does one reconcile "It’s not that women are worse evaluators" and "women favour women candidates"? If they unfairly favour women, then they are, in fact, worse evaluators. (Conversely, if there's a global bias against women and women are less biased, then they're better evaluators. Not sure if that would be compatible with the article's data?)
I remember previous studies about job referrals, that claimed women favour women, while men don't particularly discriminate:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.102209
https://doi.org/10.1086/497257
(I haven't checked these studies carefully, fwiw)
"discrimination against female applicants for historically male-dominated jobs has significantly declined and is no longer observable."
Not only that, both male-dominated *and* female dominated jobs now see discrimination against male applicants. This has been the case for over 20 years: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0749597823000560-gr7.jpg
This is a chart from the study linked at the top of the article.
Don't worry, Alice won't bother herself with that. Goes against her narrative.
It would be refreshing if researchers would cease their second-wave preoccupation with simplistic sex-based categories and focus instead on gender (e.g., traditional male, stereotyped here as "self-confident and self-aggrandizing," vs. alternative or beta male). How much of what is being attributed to men and women is better understood as behavior or treatment of traits associated with, say, personality disorders (e.g., narcissistic vs. avoidant), regardless of sex?
Feminists constantly downplay the influence women have. Men are fallin over themselves to placate feminists all over the West. "Women good, men bad" is an idea that is very pervasive in society.