Re: Percentage of business leadership roles held by women

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(theWZAoff)
There is actually a fairly noticeable correlation between the promotion of equal gender opportunities and less women in high up positions. It also leads to a smaller percentage of women in STEM fields. The graphic seems to note that. It's interesting.

(sieben-acht)

It’s a phenomenon where you act up to stereotypes you’re exposed to. You tell a girl that everyone in life is against her and people think she sucks at math and no one will ever pay her and they end up being miserable. While an Eastern-bloc girl is told to pass her entrance exams like everyone else and get on with it and they do just as well as their male peers.

Have you ever considered the possibility that perhaps in a perfect country with truly equal opportunity the gender split between things like these won't be 50/50? That perhaps gender is an aspect which fundementally shapes your character and thus affects what kinds of professions you are likely to pursue, even on a biological level, and that trying to superficially impose this 50/50 outcome is the true source of inequality?

(reni-chan)

Inb4 explanation to as why east Europe leading the chart is in reality actually bad and why barbaric and uncivilized east Europeans are actually sexist and misogynist filth.

Yes yes and emancipated west europeans are well known for their honesty and unbiased media!

Here an explanation on why east Europe does so well:

"When interviewed by the Guardian newspaper about life in Poland, Maya Mortensen, a women who grew up under communist rule in the 1950s and 60s, commented: “The regime made absolutely no distinction between men and women. I never even thought about the division – all advance in society was open to men and women equally.”"

Interesting and I didn't even realise it. I was born in mid 90s in Poland and it wasn't until 2006 when I moved to the UK when I became familiar with the terms like gender equality. It was as if someone was trying to explain to me that water is wet or grass is green.

(AnaliaReborn)

I don't feel like this is a common stereotype in Western Europe. Most acknowledge that the former communist countries are ahead in gender equality issues. It's mostly racism and xenophobia which are perceived to be more prevalent in Eastern Europe. Same between west and east Germany.

Okay, but are those same people aware that white supremacy was pretty much a Western thing that didn’t have much to do in east Europe and that there is a reason most Jews and Gypsies lived in east Europe before a German tried to wipe them out from there? There’s a lot of revisionism in the West that tries to paint itself as having a tradition of anti-racism and human rights founded in the Enlightenment yet their concept of anti-racism and human rights is very new and it is already being questioned as a concept with a resurgence of the far-right in the West.

You're the same guy who told me yesterday that black people aren't as French as white people and you come talk to us about racism? You are a great example of a racist.

That’s not racism and I didn’t say that either way.

(Svhmj)
It's probably because of the gender equality paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

Nah, the paradox is about STEM fields, it has nothing to do with leadership positions.

The logic is the same tbh. Women don't go into STEM because they don't need to in order to make a decent living the same way women don't get into the highest echelons of bussines because there is no need for it.

Not saying is acurate just that the same logic can be applied fairly easily.