Apparently you have all the answers with regards to the motivations and capabilities of women. Remarkable.
Isn’t it? I suppose a lifetime of interactions with women of all kinds, from many different cultures, in many different roles, and a decided disinclination to watch TV or believe everything I see in Hollywood movies lays an excellent foundation for having a clue. You should try it.
Are they your own hypothesises or do you have legitimate proof of these opinions?
Do I really need to dig up studies that demonstrate that women have better memories than men? You should already know that such studies exist. Perhaps you need a study to prove that most lawyers have no real love of the law. Anybody over the age of 30 knows this without a study. Look up every discovery humankind has ever made and it will be populated with men, so my statement that women have never been the drivers of innovation is demonstrably true, and if you read up on technology, mathematics, the sciences, or heck, even new fields of study, how often is it a woman doing the inventing and the innovating? Any statement I make about the future is by definition speculative, so sweetie, in case this is over your head, it means there can be no ‘proof’ of that which hasn’t yet happened.
The pattern holds for elite entrepreneurial activities. Men begin these companies, not women. If you care to argue that men aren’t more inclined to engage in risk-taking activities, or on average aren’t more comfortable in competitive environments, then go ahead. You go right ahead and try to convince people that women are entrepreneurial juggernauts in few-rules, high-risk, hyper-competitive environments like high-tech startups. You go right ahead and engage in that bizarre bit of fantasization.
Do I really need to dig up studies of which you should already be aware that illustrate female predilection towards verbal communication, consensus building, social interaction, and various and sundry other group-focused problem-solving techniques? Do I need to point out that more women gravitate to the Democratic Party, the collectivist party, than to the Libertarian or Republican parties? Do I really have to dig up studies demonstrating higher physiological stress levels in females versus males when they are alone and encounter problems of different sorts? Are you so inexperienced that you don’t understand that committees never innovate, that only individuals can come up with something new, and so therefore those who make decisions by committee can never be brilliant? Do you not know the meaning of ‘groupthink’, and why people whose primary motivation is group validation or validation through personal relationships are thus completely incapable of innovative thinking?
Are you really not aware of the phenomenon of grade inflation? Are you really not aware of the studies showing that college graduates know less than they did 40 years ago over a broad range of subjects ranging from history to basic mathematics to English grammar to … well, you get the idea. Do you not understand why boys, who are more kinetic than girls, might not be all that jazzed with sitting around a classroom learning nonsense while having empowerment sunshine blown up their asses because their female teacher thinks all they need is a little more support and they’d become the next Isaac Newton?
Do you not know that communications courses are a running joke at the university, that sorority girls and football players gravitate towards this subject? Have you not seen the polls showing that people hold complete disdain for broadcast journalism? I asked for a demographic study on the producers of these shows. Perhaps you could find one and pass it along (although I don’t think you’ll be happy with the results).
And for God’s sake, do I really need to dig up yet another study which shows that women do prefer older mates who make more money than they do?
In other words, you’re not asking for proof, you’re asking me to educate you about things you should have known for decades. And please do us all the favor of not confusing yourself or your nieces with actual data and a viable argument, such as it is.
P.S. (Finland? What the …?)
P.P.S. Please stop using terms like empowerment.
Only insecure weaklings feel the need to talk about how empowered they are. If you were truly empowered you’d just do what you want to do, even when people like me are being mean and icky. Just some free advice, in case you find yourself amongst accomplished people.
P.P.P.S. “She is now enrolled at Stony Brook U for grad work in management.” What did I say about joining pre-existing organizations and operating in safe, easily identified patterns? Your niece deserves respect, but she is neither an innovator nor an entrepreneur. I’m sorry, she’s a bureaucrat. (Not that the world doesn’t need administrators.) And by the way, shouldn’t it be your nephews who need support?
P.P.P.P.S. I call BS on the ‘scholarship money’ for Jr. College. JC is too inexpensive to require scholarship money. A credit card with a $2000 limit will cover JC costs — you receive scholarship money only for expensive four-year universities.
