Intellectual Atmosphere at Cornell?

mikeyc765
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:38:07 +0000

Someone needs to study more linguistics as that was the point I was making. There is a distinction between the use of gender in anthropology and the study of culture versus the use of gender in the use of language/linguistics. The level at which you are engaging this discussion is juvenile.

I may not have taken gender studies, but I did study economics. While there technically is a gender gap between women and men in pay, most of the difference (not all) is accounted for in the choices men make versus the choices women make in the labor force. Men are more into engineering/sciences/business whereas women do more social sciences, which pay less. That means on average, women make educational choices that afford them lower human capital. There is also the anatomical truth that women bear children, so that affects career choices and work environment choices (like choosing more part-time work). The issues are super complex (and there is a cultural undertone implied with all these statements I don’t feel like getting into on these forums), but then again, my point is that citing the 3/4th statistic haphazardly is naive. Your use had the implication that women earn 75% of what men earn for equal work. That’s false.

And if you understood context, I think it was clear I was making an observation from the content in this thread, not representing all of CC. By the way, the contextual clue was “My gist from reading the thread is most found you…”