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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Sexism, Statistics And Changing The World

Six billion people on this planet. A higher ratio of males in China, and a higher ratio of females born human race wide. A higher ratio of male directors in business. A higher ratio of females in wellness care. Every field have a ratio of females to males where there is no equal playing field of 50/50. We dwell in a human race with mostly work force doing mostly male things and mostly women doing mostly female things no substance what the laws are.

When the ratios are greatly unequal, state a infirmary with mostly female employees, or any military subdivision with mostly male employees, or any topographic point you personally cognize or have got experienced as being greatly over a 50/50 ratio, then the methods of keeping the position quo demand to be challenged.

Before ambitious the position quo, imagining the reversal of the statistics and envisioning what the consequences would be is an oculus opener. If most curates were female, if most fulls general were female, if all United States Presidents were female, if most nurses were male, if most instructors were male, if most secretaries were male, if most counsellors were male, if most professors were female, if most men of science were female, and if most husbandmen were female, the human race would look, sound, and experience differently.

The human race is changing and more than than women are working in primarily male dominated fields, and more males are working in primarily female dominated fields, but the alterations are not extremist and the disparity in ratio is still quite high in many fields. The grounds are not always with the applicants. The barriers and inducements are still in topographic point for many countries to keep ratios of disparity.

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