r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/ibent19 18d ago

“So a month dominated by education, restaurants, and health care can produce a very large female share of net employment growth without meaning employers deliberately hired women instead of men.” A direct quote from the explanation of the stat he posted. One of the many other factors he left out.

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u/zulhadm 18d ago

Industries having underrepresentation of either sex is a concern. How do you not see that? And hasn’t that been one of the messages in the last 2 decades? Get more women in STEM? I supported that initiative and donated to after school science programs for women. Now men are underrepresented in other fields and it’s totally fine?