we have talked about gender seggregation before and there seems to be evidence that in many walks of life men try to avoid overly feminised environments. the authors below argue that this could potentially further exacerbate gender divisions in disciplines. its interesting that female only scholarships have been announced to encourage women in to engineering in Ireland.
the key question for me is whether any of this matters for the quality of the science being produced. Will all male or all female environments lead to distorted views of the world, particularly in a social science context?
http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/docs/England%20article.pdf
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Does it matter whether an article is written by a man or a woman? In my view: clearly not.Of course if all the papers on female labour supply or childbirth or sexual violence were written by men (or by women) this might not be an ideal situation but this is not an issue. An interesting test would be to see whether one could predict the sex of the authors of anonymized papers. Deirdre McCloskey was of the view that economics needs to become more feminized. I think this is all baloney.
I certainly am not fond of quotas, be they related to gender, trade or whatever. Though sometimes good arguments can be made about developing critical mass to break an inequitable cycle that might otherwise continue for one or more lifetimes.
The way things are going,we will need quotas for men. I wonder how people will feel about that?
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