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kmlklmk's avatar

>Gender gaps in US housework

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father

Even in dual income households where men and women both work full time .married fathers work(paid+unpaid) more hours than married mothers

>In Norway and North America, male-majority workplaces haemorrhage female talent. This fact alone explains STEM’s exceptionally leaky pipeline.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0890207020962326

According to this paper written steve stewart williams,discrimination does not explain less woman in stem,because

"many studies have found evidence of anti-female discrimination in STEM. At the same time, however, many other studies have failed to find such discrimination, or have found discrimination in favour of women"

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Ridiculous to frame communist China as particularly oppressive to women! Communism ended thousands of years of state-enforced, society-enforced & family-enforced patriarchy - indeed, greatly increased sexual equality is (theoretically) a pillar of communism, and that pillar contributed in no small way to the popularity of the ideology.

Also weird to frame Puritans as particularly oppressive to women. They were merely continuing existing patriarchal practices extant in contemporary English culture. The big reason that there was particular friction in the Puritan colonies was that the colonial environment inherently gave women more independence & responsibility compared to back home in England. There was pushback from men because women in the early American colonies were in fact a lot closer to equal than they had been back in Europe, due to the "all hands on deck" effect of living in a new & harsh environment.

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