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Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox

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175K views14 years ago6 recommendations

Brain and nervesGenetics and genomicsNeuroscience

A Norwegian documentary exploring the biological and sociological factors behind gender differences in career choices.

An informative and entertaining norwegian top quality documentary series about norwegian sociologists trying to brainwash the norwegians.

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6 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended for its exploration of biological gender differences and the gender equality paradox in Scandinavia.

oblique63in Hacker News • Recommends

On “Who Gets Into Accelerators? Persistent Men With SaaS Apps, Says Study”

> Most people feel that isn't the case though. That the disparity is a social problem that we can change and fix. Recently saw a really interesting well-researched Norwegian documentary that explores this topic and kinda throws that whole view into question: link to this video
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sputrin Hacker News • Recommends

On “An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Founders Conference”

I think everyone discussing any gender gap should really watch this Norwegian documentary: Brainwashed: The Gender Equality Paradox link to this video The "social expectations" hypothesis fails to explain why countries with higher living standards have more polarized sectors. The idea that in a perfect world with no "social pressure" we would reach a parity between genders ignores just about all research done on the biological gender differences.
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T2_t2in Hacker News • Recommends

On “What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech”

…people will dominate, as this belonging and fitting in becomes increasingly entrenched, and snowballs on itself like runaway recurssion. That seems, to me, the logical conclusion of slight biological gender differences combined with a rise up the pyramid of needs, which lessens the pressure of the former two to create cultures that trump biology. link to this video is a documentary about Scandinavia's attitude to gender relations, and the whole series is brilliant, and shows that gender separation is, if not inevitable, certainly understandable.…
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T2_t2in Hacker News • Recommends

On “You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview”

…list, the gender gap shrinks. Indian, Chinese, and Russians are from cultures where ANY job is hard to get, and good jobs are very few and far between. Because jobs are scarce and a safe, middle class life requires sacrifice, people in these developed countries are more likely to choose jobs based on pay and availability than what they will enjoy. link to this video is a Norwegian documentary on this, in 8 parts, and it is well worth a watch.…
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the-dudein Hacker News • Recommends

On “A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard”

Brainwash, a Norwegian documentary does a good job : link to this video Among other things, he visits a doctor who has to decide which gender to choose for babies who obviously need some work ( sorry for the wording ).
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woohoojooin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds”

100% agree. There are major psychological And physiological differences Between men and women. (Reminder: difference is the opposite of equal. Also, genetically distinct individuals are not equal. “Equal” is only useful in quantitative analysis). Learn more here: “Gender Equality Paradox” - a Scandinavian comedian explores this topic by interviewing academics from various sides of the political spectrum. link to this video
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mzanin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers in computer science”

If you view "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" on YouTube, you will find interesting answers. link to this video In a scientific experiment, from the age of nine months, boys choose masculine toys, while girls choose femmine toys. Boys are more attract from inanimate systems, while girls from social interactions. Obviously culture has an effect, every person is unique, etc., etc. So there cannot be limitation on what a person want and can do. It is only unrealistic pretending that 50% of boys and 50% of girls will have the same interests in work and life, because they are different.
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mpweiherin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Women preferred 2:1 over men for STEM faculty positions”

There are actually studies on this. It turns out that the more egalitarian and more wealthy a society, the more unequal the outcomes1. Talked about in "Brainwash", a Norwegian documentary2. 1 link 2 link to this video
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sah2edin Hacker News • Mentions

On “We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews”

There's a documentary titled Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox that explored those differences 1 1 link to this video
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pdub123in Hacker News • Mentions

On “Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads”

…e than 500,000 people shows that some of these differences are quite large.1 The most relevant finding here is that about 15% of women have the same level of interest in engineering as the average man; 50% of men, by definition, would have stronger interests in engineering than the average man." link Ex3: "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" link to this video…
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stopglobalismin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Job Applicant Resumes Are Effectively Impossible to De-Gender”

Men != Women Women != Men Sorry if that offends you. Youtube: "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" link to this video
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