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As a female engineer, I am particularly aware of the dichotomy between the “You Go Girl!” rhetoric and the “But That’s So Hard!” reality.
Even in engineering departments, the women all gravitate to the “easier” and more “person-oriented” positions. So, although there might be 10 female software engineers in a department of 60, the women will tend toward things like systems analyst, quality control, auditing, testing, project management, etc. It’s rare for a woman to stay in the actual software development team for very long. They usually
get out as fast as they can. We used to take bets on how long one would last as a coder. I got out in… 3… 2… 1… QC, here I come!
It’s like that in every industry. You can always find a few token women who actually like the jobs, but it’s a minority.
Look at the
medical community. Most surgeons are men (it’s something like 95%!). Women tend toward easier things like family medicine, pediatrics, or psychology, and most female doctors work part-time and retire early. That’s one hidden reason why our health care costs are increasing: female doctors are increasing. They cost more and work less.
Telecoms is the same way. How many women are telecommunications electricians versus working in management or call centers? Out climbing towers, laying cables, programming cable boxes? We should create female quotas for the jobs women
don’t like to do, and then sit back and watch the companies run around frantically, paying women $500k to work on power cables or dig canals, with a monthly turn-over of 80%.
That would be so… interesting.
Another point is that when women flood into a job category, men tend to leave. That is not because women are “better” necessarily, but because having large numbers of women in your field tends to “feminize” it. Everything gets softer, slower, easier. Litigation increases, internal disputes and dating rises. The competitive spirit degrades, and it all becomes about “team work” and “soft skills”. Men like to work hard and measure themselves against
other men. Once a field becomes an “estrogen fest”, the men escape to other fields, and the salaries decline (men tend to be worth more to employers, so having a lot of men around keeps salaries high).
Men are also more ingenuitive, so start-ups tend to be overwhelmingly male. Once they get more successful, they add more and more women, until they end up a corporation. I’ve worked at two engineering start-ups, so I’ve had the opportunity to observe this twice. In other words, women are associated with bloated growth and bureaucracy. Things like accounting, human resources, internal auditing, secretaries. Those are all parasitic fields that feed off of the surplus of the *actual *producers.
There’s nothing wrong with that (such jobs are also necessary), but there are simply too many of these positions. The quantities are required by laws and regulations, and are part of a gigantic make-work scheme for women. Men know that somebody, somewhere, needs them to fill out some form. They know that they now have to hire a woman to help them fill those forms out. The fact that the form is useless, and that nobody is going to read it, is something they are just expected to deal with. What do you think all of that paperwork is for? Most tax preparers are women. Most paralegals are women. Most medical assistants are women. Soon most accountants will be women. Man up.
Teaching, secretarial, and public services also used to be a primarily male professions. But how many men would want to work there now? There used to be plenty of men who were interested, but now it’s a “girl thing”. Men are being chased out of fields they used to dominate. Even software development is becoming “girly”. This is leading to rising costs because men tend to be more productive when doing the same work, they take fewer breaks, and they work longer hours.
The truth is, if more women stayed home, raised, and educated their own children, we’d probably all be a lot better off. Things would be cheaper, red tape could be cut, hospital waiting lists would shrink, men’s salaries would rise, and our kids wouldn’t be so anti-social and degenerate. It would be an act of mercy to us all.
But you didn’t hear all that from me…
