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b_b  ·  4117 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Battle Of The Sexes: Women At The Top Of Defence Industry

I'm not sure I buy the gender gap. I'm sitting in a new staff orientation (staff are physicians and senior scientists) at a major health system currently (paying close attention, obviously!), and there are 6 men out of about 20 attendees. The gender gap is a vestige that will be gone as soon as the baby boomers are all retired.





theadvancedapes  ·  4117 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The gender gap is a vestige that will be gone as soon as the baby boomers are all retired.

Yes, I agree. In our generation we are seeing the gender gap disappearing in almost every field of study (except the physical sciences). The only institutions that are maintaining a gender gap are political and religious - but they will be changed radically in the coming decades.

thenewgreen  ·  4117 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree. I have a team of 7 that I work with and 3 of them are women. The most capable leader that I have ever had was a woman. But that had little to nothing to do with her gender.