{"id":36917,"date":"2018-11-21T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36917"},"modified":"2018-10-31T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:01:58","slug":"qotd-occupations-and-sex-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/qotd-occupations-and-sex-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Occupations and sex differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sex differences are a distribution, not a hard, bright line. For example, the women\u2019s world record<\/a> in the hundred-meter dash is slower than the U.S. high school boys’ record<\/a>. Men on average are faster than women. But the women at the top of the distribution — those Olympians — are still faster than most men. It would be absurd to say that a woman can\u2019t run the hundred meter in 11 seconds, just because most women can\u2019t. It would be equally absurd to say that men are not, on average, faster than women.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s possible that the distribution of nurturing traits is skewed enough that fewer men will be good at the difficult and emotionally taxing job of providing intimate care for sick and needy people. While there are plenty of health care jobs that don\u2019t require so much direct human interaction, they tend to require more training. And the ability to sit in a classroom and absorb material from a textbook is also a human trait that is unevenly and unfairly distributed. It\u2019s not that no men can succeed in transitioning from old-style \u201cmanly\u201d jobs to the pink-collar professions, but that fewer men may be able to do so than we\u2019d like to think.<\/p>\n

Megan McArdle, “Some Blue-Collar Workers Probably Shouldn’t Do Pink Jobs”, Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sex differences are a distribution, not a hard, bright line. For example, the women\u2019s world record in the hundred-meter dash is slower than the U.S. high school boys’ record. Men on average are faster than women. But the women at the top of the distribution — those Olympians — are still faster than most men. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,25,66,41,13],"tags":[254,95],"class_list":["post-36917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-gender","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Br","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36918,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36917\/revisions\/36918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}