Well, okay. But the same leadership qualities of firmness, clear-headedness and ability to prioritize tasks and make decisions are required in attorneys and judges. And I can assure you, there are innumerable women who do just fine in those roles.
Jordan Peterson says Ontario psychologist licence may be suspended over public statements
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Seriously!?
So which of the female justices on the Supreme Court of Canada do you think are less able than the male justices?
It's possible that all are equally able... doesn't change that distributions within the entire population differ and on any number of other scales too.
Why do you think that over 98% of truck drivers are men? Is it because women are incapable of driving trucks? It is due to historical and present day oppression? Is it choice?
Finally, are truckers necessary for modern living standards?
Why are prisons all over the world filled primarily with men? Shouldn't it be 50/50 since genders are the same?
We could do this all day but I don't want to dash your fairy tale hopes that men and women measure up equally.
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It's an isolated job that would make the women vulnerable to sexual harassment and it requires physical strength and endurance.
If it requires so much physical strength and endurance, why are all the truckers I've seen out of shape and overweight? Taxi drivers should also be honed athletes by your logic, too?
How would driving goods in a truck result in sexual harassment? You pick up cargo at point A, drop it off at point B. The machines do all the work for you.
We still have centuries of social conditioning telling us which jobs should be done by men and which by women.
Change is slow.
But is your point that differences in physiology impact various job performances?
Surely when it comes to activities like sport, the differences are salient enough to be seen by the naked eye. We know that in equal weight classes, a male boxer is going to defeat a female boxer.
In activities that involve teams of people with physical and psychological components, the differences may be less obvious, and that's when studies are conducted, like this one for the Marines:
Do you think that rates of burnout, ability to work overtime, work outdoors, work dangerous jobs, avoid injury, maintain focus, are impacted by general personality and physiological differences between genders? Do men and women approach spatial tasks the same?
Should I continue?
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Some of that stuff would probably need expert analysis. There is a clear strength and athletic ability difference between males and females. That aside, I can't answer.
But none of this impacts "leadership qualities".
Because a fat, out of shape guy is still stronger than a female.
For the same reason women don't walk alone through parks at night or stroll down a dark alley. Driving a truck means they're alone, far from any witnesses / supports in a heavily male environment.
Of course it does. Are you led by the person that talks the talk but has never or is incapable of walking the walk?
Are you led by the person that gets burned out, cries and get depressed or the person that stays even keel and marches forward steadily?
Are you led by the person that works normal 9 to 5 and calls it a day (because they want "work life balance"), or the guy that can grind around the clock finding solutions to all the problems that makes everyone more productive and the company more successful?
Obviously these are generalities. Most men don't meet these standards. Even fewer women do.
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He can't monotize being "censored" though if he does that, though.
Yes and no.
The literature is far less clear than he is implying here, and the idea that the cause for what is seen in these kinds of studies is men not having wives is also less clear.
He isn't making it up out of whole cloth, though, nor is he completely misunderstanding the literature.
You forget that a core moral code of some people is "You don't get to tell me what to do. I get to tell you what to do. That's how we know where we are in the hierarchy and the hierarchy is all important."
You do realize that his comments actually impact on his chosen (but abandoned) profession right? Him posting on some of the things he does would be equivalent to a doctor posting that germs don't exist.
I know plenty of women who work 24/7 and keep an even keel. You have to stop accepting Peterson's silly stereotypes.
Seriously?!.... Because some polygamous neolithic village has horny, angry dudes and they raid the other village over the hill which has available ladies?!
How is that even remotely related to 21st Century North America?!?!?!?!
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