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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this comment shows is a commitment to a view called Gender essentialism- which argues that men are one way organically  (I.e. decisive, rational) and women are another way ( I.e. docile, peace loving, more compromising). This is a really outdated view that was used in the 1950s and 1960s to argue that women could never be army generals or president, etc.  The main issue with this view is that it conflates all women together ( all women are this way) and it kind of awards all the good and fun qualities to men and essentially describes female qualities as second clas or those belonging to broken men ( ie men are rational and women are emotional).

It limits and hurts everyone to simplify this world in such a way that women are assumed not to be good at math and science, business leadership etc. It also hurts men by saying that they are not relational and good at social work etc.

It doesn’t make anyone a joyless harridan to point out how limiting this is. And it’s asinine to say that women should embrace their “femininity” and not pursue occupations like medicine. Get back on your dinosaur and go back to your cave.[/quote]

Nothing wrong with identifying trends and patterns, even if they do not apply to every member of a group.

I'm sure you are up in arms with all of the articles in HBR and Forbes claiming how "women are more empathetic" and that makes them better business leaders. Oh, the harm![/quote]

There actually is a huge harm.  Women in leadership positions are being judged not only on delivering the results, but also on doing it in "more empathetic" way.  Men fail when the bottom line numbers don't measure up, women fail when the bottom line numbers don't measure up OR someone's feelings got hurt.  [/quote]

What world do you live in? There is [i]nothing[/i] wrong with observing patterns and trends. This is not controversial.[/quote]

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