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0 pointschaostheory11y ago0 comments

You're missing the forest for the trees (assuming your assumptions are correct).

Business (executives, secretaries) is more respectable than IT (programmers, tech support).

I would argue that nurses and teachers have higher prestige than a programmer or engineer in most parts of the country. (Let's not confuse salary with prestige)

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johngalt11y ago

Still comparing apples to oranges. The most common job for women is secretary (which generated countless headlines). The most common job for men is truck driver not programmer. People always focus on CEOs and company founders being all men, but no one brings up all the people working construction, pest control, mining etc...

hyperpape11y ago

I can't prove you wrong, but I find the idea implausible. Perhaps it's because a good half of my friends are PhDs.

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