Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations
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#3> Granberg and his colleagues found that women had higher positive employer response rates than men on average, an effect that was primarily driven by female-dominated occupations. There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions.
Duh?
The only reason that organized misandry isn’t taken seriously is the pervasive misandry in HR, education, and other female dominated fields.
Education has been female dominated for forty years — and becoming less equal. Universities are currently 60% women and 40% men.
Have you heard of a single scholarship to help men reach “equity”? …anyone?
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#4I think I may have experienced this...
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#5The original source:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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#6“that, at least in Sweden and the occupations we study, hiring discrimination in entry level jobs is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations,”
That's interesting. I work in a female-dominated occupation (libraries), but, it's only female dominated at the lower levels. Historically, at least, directors/managers and the upper level folks tended to be men, and those are of course the only jobs that pay very well. So while there's waaay more female librarians, there's way more male library directors. I think that's been slowly changing recently. I don't see that they look at libraries in this study, nor do they mention managers.
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#7" a profit maximizing firm should not discriminate between workers of equal productivity based on immutable characteristics "
Gender is an immutable characteristic? That's debatable. But whether it is or isn't doesn't seem to make discriminating by it better or worse. That makes immutability a poor discriminator of tolerable discrimination.
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#9“that, at least in Sweden and the occupations we study, hiring discrimination in entry level jobs is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations,” That's interesting. I work in a female-dominated occupation (libraries), but, it's only female dominated at the lower levels. Historically, at least, directors/managers and the upper level folks tended to be men, and those are of course the only jobs that p…
Library directors would look like the entry-level workforce 20-30 years ago, right?
One of the major faults in these analyses is to not account for cohorts — and so they discriminate against men in the here and now (fresh hires) to “balance” historic issues that haven’t aged out yet.
That purposeful (and misguided) bigotry is the basis of a lot of modern movements, like “anti-racism”.
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#10I think its pretty common in the US. Look at law firms there are very few male paralegals and nursing as well. Same concept applies to secretarial / admin / HR style roles. I have seen a hiring manager in real life skip over male applicants for an admin role.