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KitSileya

(4,035 posts)
9. Yeah, but it's funny how the primarily women's occupations slide down the class scale
Mon Jan 13, 2014, 01:31 PM
Jan 2014

That's where so many of them are blind - if many women become doctors, doctors get less pay, and less status. If women get more degrees, degrees become practically worthless. It was interesting where they posted that the increase in women students happen everywhere women can freely go to school, even in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia. It has nothing to do with feminisation of the school system etc - perhaps it has something to do with the fact that girls are raised to have more self control, because boys don't meet the same push-back if they refuse to do stuff, or refuse to socialize? And until recently it hasn't mattered, as boys were given advantages (or privileges) that still put them ahead, despite their lack of self control and inability to function optimally in an environment that demands self control.

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