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Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Please keep in mind that if really true, it is not a binary thing. It’s a distribution. There are going to be plenty of women who are more interested in things than the median man, and there are plenty of men who are more interested in people than the median woman.

Wish people would keep this in mind for everything.

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Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Still the problem here is we don't _really_ know whether this is genetic or shaped by our upbringing even when it comes to the most egalitarian societies. I'd like to see the same study done on the little left hunter-gatherers bands.

We do know that gender differences in a variety of psychological traits are more pronounced in more egalitarian societies. See e.g. https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-women-e...

Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Recently I (male) was thinking about to change my work to something, I have to work more with people. The problem is mostly, it is very very bad paid.

Can't speak to gender disparities but as a software engineer as I have progressed in my career I have both been paid more and spent much more time working with people.

It has some truth for me too. But then mostly the "with people" in tech comes because you are in a leading position. I tryed, but I'm not good at leading a team.

Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Does this mean James Damore was right? Or is there something wrong with this research?

James Damore based his white paper on research exactly like this. It's not like this is now suddenly falling out of the sky.

Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Still the problem here is we don't _really_ know whether this is genetic or shaped by our upbringing even when it comes to the most egalitarian societies. I'd like to see the same study done on the little left hunter-gatherers bands.

I don't know if it's really important to know for practice. Who care where it comes from if the effect is there and you have to live with it?

It's not that effect being caused by upbringing makes it somehow unimportant, or unworthy of being there.

Re: Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

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Does this mean James Damore was right? Or is there something wrong with this research?

You don't need confirmations like that to say he was right. He was right, and we know that because his arguments were (relatively) well-built, so they are really worth considering.
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