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Book recommendation: Invisible Women - a very well sourced book on bias (specifically gender bias)
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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 611906" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>People make choices. Government owes people an opportunity not an outcome.</p><p></p><p>Not studying in HS is a choice. Choosing anthropology instead of engineering is a choice. Having a child and having that take a bunch of your time up instead of focusing professional career is a choice. Working on weekends when needed instead of being at home is a choice. Choosing to be a teacher instead of a doctor is a choice.</p><p></p><p>My frame of reference is my personal situation. My father wouldn’t let me use my family background as a crutch. I get people telling me I’m lucky and have been gifted opportunities. In HS I worked every weekend, played sports and was in a band. I could have not gone to GT and endured the pain/struggle of trying to graduate when I could have gone somewhere much easier & almost assuredly graduated with honors with significantly much less effort. Nobody told me to stay up an extra 2-3 hr hours a day getting my quals early in the military so I had a chance of advancing early. I didn’t shirk the harder jobs in my career like others. I went to school at night to get advanced degrees. I outwork the competition & that’s not bragging, it’s fact. I compensate for lack of knowledge by working harder.</p><p></p><p>Many other people have done the same. Not all are successful but a far larger percentage have followed similar paths that I have than have not. If women want to be “highly successful” if that’s what you want to call it, well they need to be told to do all of the above. Frankly, raising good human beings is “highly successful” in my mind but it’s not fashionable to refer to that occupation as being worthy in the eyes of the Liberals. </p><p></p><p>I’m not going to read the book you recommended because I won’t invest the effort. It’s an old, tired, worn out source of gender outrage. I may give a copy to my assistant or other females on my staff but she will likely just chuck it away. My assistant is comfortable with her career choices and understands what she’s doing & not doing. She won’t be boo hooing about I’m not making the big bucks because she’s juggling her career and family responsibilities and that’s her choice, not anyone else’s. The other females on my staff are grateful for being given equal opportunity, equal not preferential or gifted equal treatment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 611906, member: 789"] People make choices. Government owes people an opportunity not an outcome. Not studying in HS is a choice. Choosing anthropology instead of engineering is a choice. Having a child and having that take a bunch of your time up instead of focusing professional career is a choice. Working on weekends when needed instead of being at home is a choice. Choosing to be a teacher instead of a doctor is a choice. My frame of reference is my personal situation. My father wouldn’t let me use my family background as a crutch. I get people telling me I’m lucky and have been gifted opportunities. In HS I worked every weekend, played sports and was in a band. I could have not gone to GT and endured the pain/struggle of trying to graduate when I could have gone somewhere much easier & almost assuredly graduated with honors with significantly much less effort. Nobody told me to stay up an extra 2-3 hr hours a day getting my quals early in the military so I had a chance of advancing early. I didn’t shirk the harder jobs in my career like others. I went to school at night to get advanced degrees. I outwork the competition & that’s not bragging, it’s fact. I compensate for lack of knowledge by working harder. Many other people have done the same. Not all are successful but a far larger percentage have followed similar paths that I have than have not. If women want to be “highly successful” if that’s what you want to call it, well they need to be told to do all of the above. Frankly, raising good human beings is “highly successful” in my mind but it’s not fashionable to refer to that occupation as being worthy in the eyes of the Liberals. I’m not going to read the book you recommended because I won’t invest the effort. It’s an old, tired, worn out source of gender outrage. I may give a copy to my assistant or other females on my staff but she will likely just chuck it away. My assistant is comfortable with her career choices and understands what she’s doing & not doing. She won’t be boo hooing about I’m not making the big bucks because she’s juggling her career and family responsibilities and that’s her choice, not anyone else’s. The other females on my staff are grateful for being given equal opportunity, equal not preferential or gifted equal treatment. [/QUOTE]
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